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pays the drover cash, and possibly the whole- 

 saler the packer, and the retailer the wholesaler, 

 the interest on the money necessary to carry the 

 product through all these hands is charged up 

 against the price of the hog and comes out of 

 the producer. Not only so, but other services 

 incidental to this method of finance are also 

 deducted. 



Contrast with this the highly developed co- 

 operative method. It was the good fortune of 

 the writer to meet recently two directors of the 

 Aukland Farmers' Freezing Company of New 

 Zealand. This is a farmers' company which 

 slaughters, freezes, and markets livestock only. 

 At no time does it own the product. The 

 farmer out in the country ships in his bullock, 

 the bullock is slaughtered, and the carcass 

 is marked and frozen, and finally marketed. All 

 the time the farmer is the owner of his product. 

 Not until the carcass is finally marketed and 

 the money paid to the company does the farmer 

 receive his returns. 



This may be an extreme example, but it 

 indicates the length to which farmers are gradu- 

 ally going, and the long and continued prosperity 

 of the company cited bears testimony to the 

 - satisfaction given. No one who has lived on a 

 farm can shut his eyes to the dire necessity for 

 funds, pressing upon many a farmer. Often he 



