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ducing effectively, or managing their farms well, or 

 making a profit, then American agriculture is not suc- 

 cessful. The mere fact that certain farmers here and 

 there accomplish these things does not make a pros- 

 perous agriculture. 



5. And finally, if we are to secure a complete democ- 

 racy among farmers, political, industrial and social, 

 we shall get it only as we make it and keep it in the local 

 community. If the local communities are not demo- 

 cratic, the farmers as a whole will not be democratic. 



And so we emphasize the organizing these thousands 

 of real farm communities as perhaps the crowning need 

 of the farmer in the New Day. 



