THE RESULTS OF FARMERS' CO- 

 OPERATION BRIEFLY STATED. 



It will increase the value of all farms from 25 to 100 per 

 cent. It will make of the farmer a spender of much more 

 money for improvements on the farm, for necessaries, luxu- 

 ries and education. It means enormous benefits to all people 

 engaged in agricultural pursuits, also to merchants, millers, 

 grain dealers, manufacturers, professional men, etc. It means 

 unprecedented and uninterrupted prosperity for America and 

 the civilized world. Uncertainties about prices, over-produc- 

 tion or unprofitable prices in any great enterprise like farm- 

 ing are constant menaces to the prosperity of a nation. 



The success of this plan means steady, uninterrupted pros- 

 perity for farmers. It means that they can make many im- 

 provements that otherwise they can not. It means substantial 

 buildings, with many comforts for the farmers' families and 

 stock that may never be enjoyed under the old order of things. 

 Having a certain profit from their products, they will spend 

 it freely, and every industry in the country will be benefited, 

 thus benefiting every man, woman and child. There can be 

 no mistake about this prediction. 



The success of this plan also means the control of the 

 markets of the world by the farmers ; and they can be trusted 

 to feed the world at fair prices. But should the fair prices 

 be refused they can starve the world by withholding their 

 produce. 



More than this : Remove the uncertainties surrounding any 

 business and you make better citizens of those people. They 

 will be better morally, mentally and physically. Remove the 

 uncertainties of prices for agricultural products and you will 

 lessen sickness, poverty, crime and taxation. Our schools 

 and colleges will fill up and our poorhouses, asylums, jails 

 and penitentiaries will have fewer inmates. Give us equity 

 and you will give us happiness. The success of this plan 

 will cause the farmer to love his business, to care for his farm, 

 to raise better crops and larger crops. He will be encouraged 

 to irrigate and to do a thousand things that now he can not 

 do. 



The success of this plan, where equity rules, will obliterate 

 that feeling, "Do him or he will do me." On the contrary, 



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