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needs his money immediately. Co-operative 

 companies, as well as any other, can make 

 provision for him, but let no one forget that such 

 service must be paid for. One curse of business 

 in the past has been that farmers have not 

 thought about the factors involved in marketing 

 their produce and have allowed professional 

 dealers and speculators to assume the risk of 

 handling it. Is it any wonder that farmers 

 have so often been "done," and that there is such 

 a spread between the price of beef on the hoof 

 and beef on the butcher's block? The spread is 

 intimately bound up with the unwillingness of the 

 farmer to allow his product to go some distance 

 out of his sight before he receives his cash in 

 return. Encouraging progress in Ontario has 

 already been made in the application of this 

 principle through the co-operative shipment of 

 live stock and the sale of grain, cheese, and other 

 products. Further progress is inevitable, but 

 the more the principle involved is pondered and 

 understood, the more rapid the progress will be. 

 So in this way the commercial activities are 

 making the U.F.O. a factor in solving the 

 farmer's primary need, that of daily bread and 

 shelter. That need will be a perpetual need, 

 and so long as the service is right, the U.F.O. as a 

 business enterprise will be slow in perishing. 

 Here is an element of permanence, and it is 



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