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and more intelligent and efficient workers. In order to secure 

 more or less permanent and efficient agricultural labor the 

 owners of great landed estates enter with the agricultural 

 wage-workers and farmers of adjoining localities into special 

 agreements, therein granting to them special privileges and 

 particular inducements. In this way lack of the labor power 

 on the great landed estates of Europe has resulted in the grow- 

 ing of especial productive agricultural units combining the 

 features of agricultural trusts with those of agricultural labor 

 unions. These agricultural combinations of Europe, however, 

 even with the addition to them of American "bonanza farms" 

 existing as yet, constitute relatively such a small percentage 

 of all the productive agricultural forces of the civilized coun- 

 tries of the world, i. e., of all these countries which passed 

 already the primordial stage of production by individual farm- 

 ers for their own use only, that agriculturists of all the civ- 

 ilized world practically constitute a homogenous body of agri- 

 cultural producers. The slight admixture to this body of 

 "bonanza farms" of the United States, now gradually disap- 

 pearing, and of the above mentioned new productive agricul- 

 tural units of Europe, combining the features of an agricul- 

 tural trust with those of agricultural labor union, does not 

 change a bit the character of the said body of agricultural 

 producers all over the civilized world as agricultural laborers 

 producing all the salable food-stuffs for the world's consump- 

 tion. Therefore, the interests of agricultural producers all 

 around the civilized world, American "bonanza farms" and 

 European landowners not excepted, are absolutely identical. 

 These interests, being exclusively concentrated on the pro- 

 ductive side of the agricultural industry of all civilized coun- 

 tries in its entity, are opposed by similarly identical interests 

 of an immense army of agricultural middlemen of the newest 

 type. Among them the railroad and elevator companies are 

 representatives of comparative honesty and leniency for the 

 producers. The immense army of non-producers, concen- 

 trated, also exclusively, on the distributive side of the indus- 

 try, especially in the persons of produce gamblers, produce 

 brokers, produce commission men, produce commission mer- 

 chants, produce stock gamblers and produce stock brokers, 



