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world prices and to speculation, so that he has 

 no personal market. In the exclusive cotton 

 and wheat regions, the hardships of the farmer 

 and the monotony of rural life are usually very 

 marked. Similar conditions are likely to obtain 

 in large-area stock-ranging, hay-raising, tobacco- 

 growing and the like. In such regions, great 

 discontent is likely to prevail and economic 

 heresies to breed. The remedy is diversification 

 in farming on the one hand, and organization on 

 the other. 



The Commission has found many organiza- 

 tions that seem to be satisfactorily handling 

 the transporting, distributing and marketing 

 of farm products. They are often incorporated 

 stock companies in which the cooperators have 

 the spur of money investment to hold them to 

 their mutual obligations. In nearly all cases, 

 the most successful organizations are in regions 

 that are strongly dominated by similar products, 

 as fruit, dairy, grain, or live-stock. 



Two principles may be applied in these busi- 

 ness societies : in one class, the organization is in the 

 nature of a combination, and attempts to estab- 

 lish prices and perhaps to control the production; 



