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the scientific side of farming, the multiplication of 

 agricultural schools and farm journals, the work of 

 the agricultural department of the government, the 

 settling up of the country, and, above all, the right 

 plan has been devised. And these will combine to 

 knit the farmers closely together, to destroy the 

 old isolation, and to make the farmers themselves 

 see that organization is as natural and easy in their 

 case as in the case of the city laborers, manufactur- 

 ers and others. And now, with every condition fa- 

 voring, the American Society of Equity has arrived. 

 Those who have dreamed of an organization of the 

 farmers may now see their dream realized. The new 

 society is not an artificial thing imposed on a civi- 

 lization not ready for it. On the contrary, it is the 

 outgrowth of the very same influences which have 

 wrought such marvelous changes in the condition of 

 the farmer. As the close association which the 

 working men have with one another inevitably sug- 

 gested organization, so organization will be sug- 

 gested to the farmer by the closer associations that 

 now exist between him and his fellow farmers. Iso- 

 lation will yield, as it has done already to some ex- 

 tent, more and more to combination, and the farm- 

 ers, united and acting together for the good of each 

 and all, will no longer be conquered in detail by 

 other classes. Instead of ignorantly and uncon- 

 sciously carrying on a guerrilla warfare against one 

 another, they will henceforth cooperate loyally and 



