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lowest rates. Cold storage houses will serve a simi- 

 lar purpose and on the same system for perishable 

 products. Individual members can store their fruit, 

 poultry, or dairy products, meat, etc., in the local 

 union line of storage houses, or consignments from 

 local union or large individual producers will be 

 received in the National Union storage houses. In 

 this way the produce can be taken care of, the market 

 ' supplied regularly with what it needs, and uniform- 

 ity of prices maintained throughout summer and 

 winter. The producers will be benefited by higher 

 prices and the consumers benefited by lower prices, 

 because the mountains of greedy profits that are now 

 added by unfair middlemen and food trusts will be 

 cut out. 



But you may ask, How are the poor farmers to 

 hold their crops ? 



In the first place, it will not be necessary to hold 

 all crops at any time, and those who do hold will 

 make a better price for those who can not hold. 

 Also our farms and farmers need the "rest cure," 

 and will not work so hard with profitable prices in 

 sight, thus reducing the crops. 



Second, with the farmers organized and fixing a 

 minimum (lowest) price dealers will see that they 

 can not buy any cheaper, and there is a possibility 

 that prices will be higher. Therefore, they will all 

 want to buy all they can at the low price, and will 

 put all their capital in the commodity as soon as the 

 poor producers must sell. I predict that the market 



