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matter of commercial advantage. Its work is 

 to make possible better business for its members. 

 It must employ the most capable men available 

 for its work, it must enter into commercial 

 relations in many directions. To burden it 

 with educational or propagandist work would 

 destroy it. It is evident that if each of 

 these organizations is to function properly, it 

 must be kept separate and distinct from the 

 other. 



The business company and its work is vastly 

 important. On its success in a great measure 

 depends the success of the farmers' work. 

 Better business means greater profit, better 

 farm homes, better rural schools, better chances 

 for farm children, and in a large measure the 

 ability of rural sections to hold their proper 

 proportion of the population. But in spite of 

 these undoubted facts, the opinion of the writer 

 is that a still greater work is and can be done 

 through the educational part of the organiza- 

 tion. It is vitally important, both for himself 

 and the nation, that the farmer should be pos- 

 sessed with high ideals of citizenship, founded on 

 knowledge and public spirit. Such is the work 

 which has been done with some effectiveness by 

 the United Farmers, so that at the end of seven 

 years' effort the farmers are probably better 

 informed on questions of public policy than any 



