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ganizing in the same way that labor was or- 

 ganizing — primarily with a view of getting a 

 larger share in the division of profits. Jn most 

 cases there has been no distinction made be- 

 tween cooperative selling by farmers which 

 would enable them to farm more efficiently and 

 market their products more cheaply and the or- 

 ganization of a group of wage-earners whose 

 objective was to get a larger return for the same 

 amount of labor or to reduce the amount of 

 labor for a given wage. 



The general fact that farmers are not inter- 

 ested so much whether the price of their product 

 is high or merely moderate, so long as the re- 

 lation of the market price to cost of production 

 is such that they can make a net profit, was 

 generally over-looked. The organization prob- 

 lem for farmers was altogether different from 

 the organization of corporations by manufac- 

 turers and business men or the organization 

 of labor groups by laborers. 



Both the public and our legislatures misun- 

 derstood this situation with the result that agri- 

 cultural organizations were put in the same 

 category as labor organizations under the law 

 and in the legislation which was designed to 

 exempt agriculture from the handicaps of the 



