86 THE AGRICULTURAL BLOC 



try which is not naturally fertile, but through 

 long years of successful cooperation the farmers 

 of Denmark have developed not only their own 

 industry but all industries in the country until 

 they are truly prosperous. Their prosperity 

 is sound because it is based upon good farming. 

 It is the best indication of what cooperation 

 will do for the consumer as well as for the pro- 

 ducer since the benefits are reflected throughout 

 the business of the nation. 



One of the charges to the Joint Commission of 

 Agricultural Inquiry was to study the marketing 

 and distribution facilities of the country with a 

 view to determining what the government might 

 do toward improving conditions. This Commis- 

 sion has made one of the most thorough and 

 comprehensive surveys of the situation that has 

 ever been made and its report constitutes a 

 classic among the literature on this subject. 



The Commission has not arrived at the point 

 of recommending any single remedy, legislative 

 or economic, which will reduce the spread be- 

 tween producers' and consumers' prices because 

 there is no single factor that is responsible for 

 the trouble. Plenty of schemes have been pro-' 

 posed which were designed to solve the entire 

 problem but they have never worked out. The 



