APPENDIX. 573 



COOPERATION. 



The literature of cooperation is abundant, but I have found few books 

 published in America which deal specially with the details of cooperation 

 among farmers. There are books published in Great Britain treating of pro- 

 ductive cooperation in farming, which has been found successful there when 

 the produce was assured of a preferential home market. This occurs only when 

 the land is owned by a "cooperative store" which retails tlie produce. For 

 the most part the authors, of books upon mercantile cooperation have in mind 

 a saving by buying cheaply, while the object of farmers' marketing associations 

 is to gain by obtaining high prices. Both seek to eliminate unnecessary 

 middlemen, and to themselves, so far as possible, do the work of those which 

 are necessary. The cooperation of labor does not usually consist in forming 

 societies to sell the labor, but for regulating its price, and preventing those not 

 members of the societies from getting work. These are called trade unions, 

 and the literature concerning them is voluminous. ^The books on cooperation 

 are sometimes written by enthusiasts who have not had practical experience 

 with its difficulties. The English Cooperative Wholesale Society issues a great 

 number of valuable tracts, apparently mailed free to any applicant. Address 

 the Central Cooperative Board, City Buildings, Corporation Street, Manchester, 

 England. The Cooperative Nevjs is a weekly paper, the official organ of English 

 cooperative societies. Address, Cooperative News, Long Millgate, Manchester, 

 England. It is published at one penny a week. Something is doubtless ivdded 

 for foreign postage. The same society publishes the Reports of the annual 

 meetings of the British Cooperative Congress, which are wonderful documents. 

 I do not know the price. 



The following books on some of the forms of cooperation have been 

 selected from a large number of titles, and together will give a very fair idea 

 of what different people understand by cooperation and the progress which it 

 is making in this and other countries. 



A Treatise on Cooperative Savings and Loan Banks. — By Soy incur 

 Dexter. D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1894. Price, $1.25. 



How TO Cooperate. — By Herbert Myrick. Orange Judd Co., New York. 

 Cloth, $1.00; paper, 25 cents. 



Labor Copartnership. — By Henry D. Lloyd, Harper & Brothers, New 

 York, 1898. Price, $1.75. 



Profit Sharing between Employer and Employee. — By N. P. Gil- 

 more. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1889. Price, $1.75. 



History of Cooperation in America.— By Prof. E. W. Bemis, Prof. 

 Amos G. "Warner, Dr. Albert Shaw, Mr. Charles H. Shinn, and Mr. David 

 R. Randall. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1888. Price, $3.50. 

 (This book gives an excellent summary of cooperative work in America up 

 to the date of its publication, hut it has, I believe, no mention of any coopera- 

 tive marketing society.) 



People's Banks. — By Henry W. Wolf. Longmans, Green & Co., London, 

 1893. (This is an English book, and I am not able to give the price. It is a 

 book of only 261 pages, and will not be found expensive. It may be ordered 



