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rant keepers who have sudden calls for large quantities, 

 could not depend on a market supplied in this small way: 

 there must he stores and market houses keeping a stock 

 equal to any emergency. But shall the keepers of these 

 stores and markets control the business and prices with- 

 out the producer and consumer having anything to say 

 about it? Is there no better way, no more just and equit- 

 able way of connecting buyer and seller? 



Let us see how our friends, the manufacturers, arrange 

 this matter. Some of them sell through a commission 

 house, which takes all their production and gets the best 

 price they can for it, for a commission and guaranty of 

 about six per cent. Others, the larger mills especially, 

 have their own selling" agents who are always on the look- 

 out for what the market wants, advising as to what shall 

 be made and ever quick and ready to take advantage of 

 any circumstance favorable to their mills. 



A combination of capital makes this possible, a com- 

 bination of mills, or trust, makes it still more profitable. 



Now, no one farm of the size we are used to can estab- 

 lish and supply a market house in the city and keep its 

 own selling agent on commission, or on a salary large 

 enough to obtain the services of a first-class man, but a 

 combination of farmers could, and thereby ensure the 

 ready sale of all they could raise at the least trouble and 

 expense to themselves, realizing better prices than they do 

 now and selling to the working men in the cities at far 

 less prices than they now pay. A strong cooperative 

 movement of this kind in our six cities would save thous- 

 ands of dollars to the honest buyers, beside giving them 

 fresher and better goods, and put other thousands into the 

 pockets of our intelligent hard-working farmers. 



One of the most unbusinesslike and wasteful things is 

 our present system of "peddling milk." going all over a city 

 to deliver a little one-horse load that could all be disposed 

 of on one side of a very short street. It is a waste of 



