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A. Let it be understood that the farmers in this society 

 don't intend to control anybody or anything but their own 

 business and prices. Heretofore the farmers were taught that 

 to get justice they must fight everybody and everything on 

 earth. It is a grevious mistake. All the farmers need to do is 

 to put the price on their goods at their market town and 

 get their price there. They don't need to care what the rail- 

 roads or stockyards charge, unless they want to protect the 

 consumer, and this they can do when they are strong and 

 powerful through organization. Don't let anybody make you 

 believe that you must fight anybody when you have the goods 

 everybody else must have to live on and for their comfort. 



35. Q. Is it a fact that the larger the crop the lower the 

 price? 



A. Invariably, and there are many cases where the smallest 

 and nastiest crops the country ever raised brought the most 

 money to the farmers, and the largest, finest crops the least 

 money. Hundreds of times farmers see their efforts crowned 

 with success in producing a crop, only to meet crushing disap- 

 pointment when marketing. 



36. Q. Will you not need to control production as well as 

 supply? 



A. No. The world will take all the food crops this country 

 will grow, and pay a fair price for them if the farmers will 

 regulate the marketing so as to prevent over supply at any 

 time. Consumption is ahead of production now, and we pre- 

 dict will increase faster than production, unless our farmers 

 get better prices to encourage better farming and larger crops. 



2,7. Q. Do farmers need to market a twelve months' supply 

 in a few months ? 



A. No. We have referred to this before. Here is the whole 

 secret of failure in the past and success for the future. Sup- 

 pose a year's supply of coal had to be marketed in three 

 months in the summer. The miners would get a very low 

 price, the middlemen make a mountain of profit, and the con- 

 sumer would pay more than an equitable price. 



38. Q. Will it not be sufficient to have storehouses and get a 

 low rate of freight ? 



A. Never. What profiteth a farmer if he stores his grain, 

 but lets the speculator, trust or middleman price it at last? 

 This is not another way to whip the devil around the bush, 

 and the devil will catch him coming or going. Storage 

 charges, commissions and reduced railroad freight combined 

 are not equal to putting a fair price on your own stuff and 

 taking your profit first. 



39. Q. Do you think money can be well spent in marketing 

 farm products? 



A. Surely. It is a fact that manufacturers and merchants 



