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dollar and nine cents per bushel, on the basis of 

 eighty- four cents, an exportable basis, and this would 

 be a big lift. But if farmers will organize and 

 get a profitable price for all their crops, I predict one 

 of the first results will be decreased production of 

 grain crops. With profitable prices assured, farmers 

 would not need to put out as large crops as in the 

 past. With farming removed from the old system 

 when labor was the only factor that earned anything 

 and the person who worked the hardest and the 

 most hours in the fierce competitive struggle was the 

 one who made the most, the tendency will be to not 

 work so hard and cut down the acreage. At all 

 events a short crop at a profitable price is always 

 better than a bumper crop at a losing price. 



This country produces nearly all the corn of the 

 world, and is the only one that has the soil and cli- 

 mate to grow the crop successfully on a large scale. 

 On this crop we can surely dictate to the world. 



There need be no fear about our market. The 

 world needs — must have — our surplus and will pay 

 a fair price for it when it learns that it can not get 

 it at an unfair price, nor will the Argentine or Rus- 

 sian exporters be able to beat the American farmers, 

 when the farmers in those countries are also organ- 

 ized in the Equity society. 



Do you not begin to see how powerful and benefi- 

 cent this organization will be ? Already the Chicago 

 speculators have been heard crying for wheat. They 

 can have all they want, but after the farmers' organ- 



