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any particular place, like the blood of our body, relief rushes 

 from all sections. 



Our railroads, street railways, express companies, refrigerator 

 car companies, cold-storage plants are organized with such com- 

 bination and vision that any industry less organized is at a 

 distinct disadvantage in doing business with them. We think in 

 terms of organization, of large units, lacking which an industry 

 has little respect and no consideration. This is a time of giants. 

 The single tree from the forest will float, but a thousand trees 

 combined make the giant ship to combat storm and gale, defy 

 the ocean's tempest and carry a Nation's trade according to the 

 will of the master. 



Inventions are so related to agriculture, and the manufacture 

 and distribution of farm machinery so well organized, as to take 

 tribute from the farmer if desired. This business is obliged now 

 to follow such methods of selling as to materially increase the 

 farmer's cost of doing business. 



Labor is organized until it can dictate to the highest bodies 

 which govern us. In the face of all these tremendous move- 

 ments the farmer still tries, single handed, to combat these 

 organizations, which are determining the course of trade and 

 swaying governments and thrones. 



Agriculture has a definite place to fill in the economic devel- 

 opment of the world. It is a wheel to the wagon, but whether 

 or not it fulfills its destiny, or, failing, destroys the other great 

 organizations, depends upon the farmers themselves. The 

 farmer needs organization, also, because he has not the capital 

 to distribute his crop, to give necessary credits, or properly 

 develop markets. He lacks not only this financial strength, but 

 also the ability of specialized selling agencies, in harmony with 

 which he is not now fitted to work. 



After adopting an organization the next step is to determine 

 how it works, to accomplish which use a simple method of ac- 

 counting. This will show that certain sections of even the same 

 farm will produce a better quality of some goods than of others; 

 that some sections will produce in greater abundance even the 

 same crop than other sections; that for various reasons, physi- 

 cal or otherwise, some sections can be cultivated at greater econ- 

 omy than other sections; that methods of doing the same work 



