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that in order to possess a sufficient knowledge of the con- 

 dition of markets — local and national as well as international 

 ones — and to obtain timely information ot the prices, fixed 

 for each of them by the said international agreements, 

 the farmers of the civilized world must have an inter- 

 national organization. Of course the price of any prod- 

 uct on local and national markets will be a price established 

 by international agreements of its producers mentioned above 

 for international markets, with costs of transportation de- 

 ducted therefrom. It does not require of any argument that 

 in modern social condition of humanity divided in different 

 political nations, which live under different political systems, 

 speak different languages, have different laws regulating com- 

 merce and industry and possess different commercial cus- 

 toms and usages, national organizations of agricultural pro- 

 ducers shall be established at first. Such establishment of 

 national organizations of agricultural producers in all produc- 

 ing, and especially surplus producing countries, is of course, 

 a necessary prerequisite of creation of an international agri- 

 cultural organization embracing all the agriculturists of the 

 civilized world. There are existing at present, some agri- 

 cultural organizations in different countries of the old, as 

 well as of the new world, but all these organizations are 

 merely local in their character or, if more than local in their 

 scope, then limited just to a certain branch of agricultural 

 production, such as grain growing, cattle raising, truck farm- 

 ing, etc. Gradual fusion of all these local and special organi- 

 zations of agriculturists of each producing country in a 

 single agricultural organization of broadest national scope is 

 just the question of time. Though agriculture in its modern 

 stage is but a general name for a large number of more or 

 less different industries, all of these industries have closest 

 connection with the soil and are therefore considerably inter- 

 dependent. Moreover, many farmers in all civilized countries 

 produce many different agricultural products at the same 

 time and not only resort quite often to crop-rotation of more 

 than three fields, but even turn their energies from one branch 

 of agriculture to another of quite different nature, as from 

 crop raising to cattle breeding, from market gardening to 



