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term conversational relationship. I might give you many more 

 illustrations, but I must not trespass upon your time to do it. 

 1 merely want to say again, that if our progress is to be w^hat 

 we want it to be, we must rest it upon these two great modern 

 notions of absolute honesty and the most complete sort of 

 cooperation. And we must realize, I take it, as we have never 

 realized, that in our progress we are all bound up together, 

 and that no one line of our development can get very much 

 ahead of other lines. No one man can get very much ahead of 

 his fellows. The whole of us must go together, or our progress 

 is tied up in that way, and if a large number lag behind, pres- 

 ently all of us are pulled back. But if all of us are pushing 

 forward by this spirit of honesty and cooperation, then those 

 leaders of us who are ahead can step up a little faster, for 

 because of our honesty and cooperation we can follow their 

 leading with greater speed. That we may be able to do this, I 

 am sure is the hope of all of us. And I may say further, I 

 believe it is the abiding faith of all of us. 



IMPROVING THE MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTING 

 OF FARM PRODUCTS. 



By Hon. Charles J. Brand, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C. 



The time has come when we, as workers for betterment of 

 agricultural conditions in the United States, have got to begin 

 to instruct our farming public just as earnestly about business 

 and business ethics and commercial practices as we do about the 

 rotation and cultivation of crops which the farmer is to employ, 

 how and when he shall spray, or how to feed his stock. Agri- 

 culture is a business industry, and as suc'h is merely one part of 

 the great business structure of the country. If farming is to 

 continue profitable and farm life is to be made attractive, we 

 must in the next decade or two give the same attention to the 

 business side of farming that we have in the past two decades 

 to the producing side. 



The farmer especially needs help and information along three 

 distinct lines: 



