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bee farming, etc. Therefore, all these local and special agri- 

 cultural organizations of different producing countries will 

 naturally become united in national agricultural organizations, 

 which thus will represent all agricultural interests of each 

 producing country. For the same reasons the fusion of all 

 these national agricultural organizations of all the civilized 

 countries of the world in one international agricultural organ- 

 ization in the course of time will be, not only natural, but 

 inevitable. This international agricultural organization, which 

 shall embrace all agricultural producers of the civilized world, 

 will be the very representative of all agricultural interests of 

 the globe, which shall name the prices of all agricultural prod- 

 ucts on the international markets. 



Of course, the agricultural millennium, when every farmer 

 of every civilized country would belong to its national agri- 

 cultural organization and through the latter to the interna- 

 tional agricultural organization, which, through its repre- 

 sentatives, shall name the prices for all agricultural products^ 

 is far off. However, in order to raise the miserable income of 

 the farmer in all civilized countries and thus ameliorate his 

 present pitiful condition it is not necessary at all to wait so 

 long. As in division and organization of political forces of 

 every civilized country a comparatively small body of men 

 holds usually the balance of political power and thereby keeps 

 political destinies of the country in their hands, in the same 

 manner among many economic factors and forces, which 

 create prices for all agricultural products in every civilized 

 country, a comparatively small body of agricultural producers 

 holds the balance of economic power to influence and es- 

 tablish these prices and thus keeps economic destinies of the 

 country in their hands. This is a relatively small body of 

 agricultural producers, which are able to hold their products, 

 representing the temporary surpluses as under the old system, 

 for a better market. This is an indisputable fact that such a 

 body exists in every producing country. Here undoubtedly 

 lies the key for the preliminary solution of the most tremen- 

 dous economic problem of the age, called the amelioration 

 of the condition of the farmer. Tt is apparent that thus far 

 this is the only key. If in every producing country, nay, in 



