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own products they can remove many of the uncer- 

 tainties now attending farming, and elevate the pro- 

 fession until it will be the equal of manufacturing, 

 banking, merchandising, etc. Farming is manufac- 

 turing, banking and merchandising. To farm suc- 

 cessfully also requires a technical knowledge equal- 

 ing that demanded by any other profession, and 

 which requires more application and years to attain 

 than most of the professions ; therefore, the success- 

 ful farmer must be a man of great attainment and 

 broad business qualifications. This will particularly 

 be true from this time forward, when more intensive 

 farming must be practiced to meet the ever increas- 

 ing demands brought about by the increasing popu- 

 lation and the multiplying abilities to consume. 



It is clear that farmers have within them un- 

 doubted, great power, but they can only exert it 

 through organization and cooperation. There are 

 only two questions before the farmers to-day, the 

 one is : Do you want to become free, independent 

 and a powerful factor — in fact the most powerful 

 and influential class in the world ? The other is : 

 Will you embrace the one way to accomplish your 

 freedom and independence and place you at the head 

 in this country and others, socially, industrially, and 

 through your power of numbers be able to force a 

 clean, strong, equitable government? Will the 

 farmers answer these questions in the affirmative, 

 or will they be forever the prey of the gamblers. 

 the transportation companies, and other powers 



