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the most potent single force at work upon our agricultural system 

 today. 1 However that may be, we must keep clearly in mind the 

 fact that the goal of any kind of business organization is to make the 

 most effective co-ordination of natural resources, accumulated wealth, 

 and human powers of all sorts physical, mental, and spiritual 

 toward the end of creating the maximum product from the land. 

 This test must be applied to all, from the humblest individual farmer 

 to the state itself. 



1 Besides its effect upon economy and efficiency of production, it may prove 

 to have an important bearing upon the distribution of incomes derived from 

 agriculture. If it be true that most large accumulations of wealth have come as 

 a reward to shrewd entrepreneurship which means the exploitation of a natural 

 monopoly may not this socialization of entrepreneurship go farther than any- 

 thing else could to maintain a truly democratic type of organization hi agriculture ? 



