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vice, so that all may have the same information and be in a 

 position to act as one man, or cooperate, as well as if they were 

 all in one community, and could be seen individually. The 

 National Union will be the head or clearing house for the en- 

 tire agricultural business. 



A very important part of the plan of the American Society 

 of Equity is the crop reporting system. Each member will be 

 a crop reporter. Either direct, or through his local union 

 secretary, on blanks furnished by the National Union. This 

 will be the most complete and most reliable crop reporting 

 system ever undertaken or accomplished, and will afford re- 

 liable information instead of unreliable reports, as have been 

 given to the public in the past. The crop reporting will also 

 be carried to foreign countries which produce or consume 

 sufficient to make them factors in this great problem. 



With reliable information about crop yields and the known 

 consumption of any commodity, the board of directors will 

 decide what is an equitable value for each crop as it is pro- 

 duced, and recommend members to ask that price, and not 

 sell for less. This will be called the minimum (lowest) price. 

 If members will quit selling the moment the market will not 

 take any more supplies at the minimum price, prices will be 

 maintained, the demand will be supplied regularly as it ap- 

 pears, no over supply, surplus or glut will occur on the mar- 

 kets, and farmers, dealers, millers and consumers will be 

 benefited, to say nothing of the relief from uncertainties and 

 fear of loss attending the old system. 



Remember, it will not be necessary for each person to be 

 told when to sell any crop. The plan contemplates that each 

 owner of produce, zvherever situated, shall supply the markets 

 through the regular channels zvith all they will take at the 

 minimum price, and stop selling the moment the buyers 

 won't take more. There need be no fear that buyers will be 

 out of the market long, because the world must have your 

 goods all the time. They can not do without a month, nor 

 week, nor even a day. The price can be made and maintained 

 as soon as this society has a million members. Then other 

 millions will ask the price also. 



We expect, under the new system, that speculation in farm 



