196 Cooperation in Agriculture 



remedies for the unfortunate condition of the cotton 

 farmer. They do not strike at the root of the Southern 

 agricultural situation. The fundamentals needed are a 

 more diversified crop system, smaller farms managed by 

 their owners, and the development of the cooperative sys- 

 tem, with local unions and larger federations through which 

 the producer can develop a comprehensive system of 

 credit and a system of distribution and marketing between 

 himself and the spinner, thereby eliminating the costs of 

 the present complex system of distribution, giving the pro- 

 ducer a larger share of the price which the spinner pays 

 for the cotton and placing him on a more independent 

 plane of citizenship. 



