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consumed the products ? Are we likely to have such 

 an increase in producing area in the next genera- 

 tion? I say no. In short, to supply the food for 

 future generations, will require intensive farming. 

 This means organization, cooperation and better 

 prices, so our present farms can be brought up in 

 fertility to produce double or triple the present low 

 averages. 



To talk of foreign countries exporting wheat or 

 other products to this country is absurd, even though 

 prices were made higher here. The more likely re- 

 sult, in fact the inevitable result, will be for foreign 

 farmers to put their price up to meet those of the 

 United States. European farmers are more for co- 

 operation than are the American farmers, and they 

 will be glad to embrace the first opportunity to get 

 rid of the competition of this country, in setting 

 cheap prices. Besides, it is proposed to organize 

 this society in all foreign countries. Thus, we will 

 have the Russian Society of Equity, the German 

 Society of Equity, etc. Already the movement is 

 under way in the surplus producing countries of 

 food crops, and great interest is shown in Europe in 

 the plan that will enable them to cooperate with the 

 American farmers to make equitable prices. 



But suppose it was not possible to retain the for- 

 eign markets on wheat — our principal export grain 

 — and our farmers were confined to the home market, 

 the tariff tax of twenty-five cents a bushel will shut 

 out foreign wheat until the home price reaches one 



