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strongest features of the proposed plan — it is an ab- 

 solutely essential feature. With such trustworthy 

 information, prices can be adjusted in such a way as 

 to be equitable to both producer and consumer. 

 Without this information such adjustment would 

 be impossible. 



But other information of an educational sort will 

 be furnished by the American Society of Equity. 

 Reference has already been made to the work of ag- 

 ricultural schools and colleges, but valuable as this 

 work is, it does not meet the requirements. The 

 time has arrived when more intensive farming must 

 be practised, and conditions will soon be such that 

 our farms must produce two or three times as much 

 as they do now, if they are to supply the ever-increas- 

 ing demands of the world. It is a fact that the aver- 

 age of our staple crops can be raised to three times 

 the present average. This has been done in Euro- 

 pean countries, and what is done there can be dupli- 

 cated here. Intensive farming implies more intelli- 

 gent farming. To farm more intelligently, the people 

 must be educated in the mysteries of the science. To 

 educate them schools must be established and main- 

 tained. There are, at present, many agricultural 

 schools and colleges, but they are not sufficient for 

 the almost universal education of the young people 

 from the farms which will be required when the 

 American Society of Equity is in successful opera- 

 tion. Nor do they fully meet the requirements of 

 the advanced agriculture that must be practised in 



