ii6 The State and the Farmer 



should coordinate their associations; the fed- 

 eral government should coordinate them all. 

 To assemble, direct, strengthen, to make 

 effective the native cooperating expressions of 

 the people, is an office the results of which are 

 beyond all imagination. All agricultural expe- 

 rience, all experiments, all investigations made 

 here and there by institutions established for 

 the purpose, even all police work and the 

 ordinary functions of government, should be 

 assembled, solidified, and educationalized. It 

 will be necessary for governments to send out 

 regular agents or organizers for this class of 

 work in the communities. In backward com- 

 munities, it may be necessary for such agents 

 even to organize cooperative creameries and 

 other economic groups. 



The economic organizations. 



It is a poor country that does not support 

 organizations to further its economic or busi- 

 ness interests. We must have associations of 

 some kind to further the interests of milk- 

 producers, creamerymen, breeders, poultry- 



