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every surplus producing country, only a part of the fanners, 

 which are able to hold their produce for a better market, 

 could be united in national organizations, or have the exist- 

 ing local and special agricultural organizations united into 

 the national ones along the lines of modern, intelligent, scien- 

 tific marketing, the modern agricultural problem would be 

 already almost solved. As soon as so frequent temporary 

 over-supply of agricultural markets, inevitably caused by the 

 existing antiquated, blind and vicious system of marketing 

 of agricultural produce, by the new system of intelligent and 

 concerted marketing, even partially applied, will be eliminated 

 and made impossible, the amelioration of the condition of the 

 farmer will be already almost attained. The fusion of the 

 said agricultural organizations of this new type of just a 

 few surplus producing countries, or even just simply their in- 

 telligent and concerted action on the international markets 

 for agricultural products, would be already a long step toward 

 a final, stable and permanent solution of the tremendous 

 agricultural problem of the age. 



As the evolution of modern society is steadily and invaria- 

 bly tending toward the substitution of the new cooperative 

 system in all industries for the old competitive one, and agri- 

 culture, as we have shown already before, makes no excep- 

 tion of this general law of modern and social and economic 

 evolution, it would be abnormal and very strange indeed, if 

 even in such a foremost agricultural country as the United 

 States there would not appear some men, which are able to 

 understand the spirit of the time and to grasp the modern 

 agricultural situation. Most fortunately for the American 

 farmer as well as for the farmers of all the civilized coun- 

 tries, the initiative in such a great movement, emanating from 

 the spirit of the times, is already taken and exactly in this 

 country. 



The American Society of Equity of North America, first na- 

 tional organization of the American farmers in proper meaning 

 of this word, was organized in Indianapolis, Ind., last De- 

 cember and has already over 60,000 members in all parts of the 

 country. The chief and paramount object of the American So- 

 ciety of Equity is to obtain profitable prices for all farm prod- 



