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stantly admitted of improvement, all going to 

 show that time and experience are necessary in 

 the development and conduct of busines enter- 

 prise. It should be repeated therefore in con- 

 nection with the co-operative company that 

 overstatement of expected benefits is sure to 

 react to some extent, but if members as a whole 

 take time to get a broad view of the movement, 

 patience is sure to come to the assistance of 

 weakening loyalty. 



Another point to be noted in this connection 

 as a temporary hindrance also is the caution 

 required in entering new commercial fields. 

 This affects particularly those districts where 

 farming is highly specialized, and the handling 

 of the products requires technical skill. For 

 instance, bordering on Lake Erie there has 

 grown up a tobacco industry with drying plants 

 and other equipment. Nearby, there is the 

 sugar-beet industry, while in the Niagara 

 peninsula fruit is the chief item of importance. 

 Farmers from each of these in turn have come 

 more than once to the U.F.O. with the demand 

 that machinery be created to handle their pro- 

 ducts. Through lack of experience, funds, and 

 trained men, the directors have had to refuse 

 all such petitions, worthy and pressing though 

 they have been. No doubt, all these develop- 

 ments will come, but in the meantime, very 



