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prices, but for equitable prices, believing that as 

 large consumption will result at a profitable price to 

 the producer as at an unprofitable price. It will as 

 strenuously oppose holding for unfairly high prices 

 as it opposes selling for unprofitably low prices. 



How will the society secure money to build ware- 

 houses, etc. ? 



Farmers can do anything they want to do, or what 

 they in equity should do, if they will organize and co- 

 operate to put profitable prices on their products. 

 Suppose they would want to build or buy elevators, 

 cold storage houses, stock yards, telegraph systems, 

 railroads, ship lines, make good county roads, etc., 

 they could do all these things and not issue a bond, 

 mortgage a property nor pay a cent out of their own 

 pocket. 



Suppose they would add a little extra to each prin- 

 cipal crop they raise and cut it out of the middle- 

 men's and trusts' profits. We have an illustration 

 like the following : 



Barley 119,000,000 bu. at 10c per bu. $11,000,000 



Buckwheat 10,000,000 " " 10c " " 1,000,000 



Corn 2,666,000,000 " " ioc " " 266,600,000 



Oats 943,000,000 " " ioc " " 94,300,000 



Rye 25,000,000 " " ioc " " 2,500,000 



Wheat 658,000,000 " " ioc " " 65,800,000 



Potatoes 273,000,000 " " 10c " " 27,300,000 



Flaxseed 19,000,000 " " ioc " " 1,900,000 



Apples 175,000,000 " " ioc " " 17,500,000 



Hay 84,000,000 tons " $2. 00 "ton 168,000,000 



Cotton 4,717,000,000 lbs. " 2c "lb. 94,340,000 



Tobacco 868,000,000 " " 5c " " 43,400,000 



Swine 10,500,000,000 " " 2c " " 210,000,000 



Kgk's 1,293,000,000 doz. " 5c " doz. 54,650,000 



Dairy products 281,600,000 dollars at 10 per 



cent, increase. 28,160,000 



Total 41,086,450,000 



This, as you will allow, does not near cover all 



