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organization is the church, weak now because its time is spent 

 in prayer and praise, without criticising which it may be sug- 

 gested that faith without works is void, and the demand now 

 is for community service and pubhc welfare. You should every 

 one support the church, preferably from the highest religious 

 motives, but, if necessary, because of business necessity. Its 

 history, standing, motives and foundation principles, universally 

 acknowledged, make it the only agency to successfully accom- 

 plish these social benefits. 



The business organization, departments of labor, storage, 

 packing, supplies, etc., naturally tend to centralize the country 

 neighborhoods, giving the church an opportunity never before 

 enjoyed. 



After organizing the individual community there should 

 then be established warehouses in the large markets, the most 

 important one of which should be the head of the institution, 

 in instant contact with every branch house, from which it 

 could direct shipments of surplus stock to the nearest market 

 having a demand. The local houses will, of course, first satisfy 

 local need, the surplus then being sent to the point of demand. 

 I venture to say that farm products have been sent from the 

 vicinity of Springfield to Boston, with consequent cost of storage, 

 packing, transportation and commission for selling, and re- 

 turned within a short distance of the man who raised it. 



The entire organization advised cannot be immediately 

 adopted, and its success does not depend on universal accept- 

 ance either in plan or area. Each community, being a single 

 unit in itself, may adopt as much or as little of the plan as 

 desired. It can likewise work in harmony and to advantage 

 with other communities similar or less organized, and as time 

 passes, with other sections seeing the advantages obtained by 

 the organized communities and feeling the pressure of their 

 competition, the system will spread, and as it extends it will be 

 developed and more completely adopted until finally agricul- 

 ture will take its place as one of the large organized units in 

 our modern industrial system. 



Following Mr. Urann's talk, E. L. Brigham, Commissioner 

 of Agriculture for Vermont, spoke on " Co-operative Dairying." 



