654 



Cooperative Marketing Societies, attention 

 to detail the key to success, 275. 



— Caution in making advances essential, 230. 



— Control of retailers by, 260. 



— Cost of organization of, 486, 494. 



— Difficulty of organizing, 493. 



— Difliculty of raising funds for, 493, 495- 



— Economic gain by associated credit, 269. 



— Economic gain by assurance against 



losses, 268. , , 



— Economic gain by assurance of honest 



pack, 268. 



— Economic gain by diffusion of business 



knowledge, 269. ... ,11 



— Economic gain by elimination- of local 



buyers and commission men, 267. 



— Economic gain by extending period of 



sale, 267. .... , 



— Economic gain confined to initial stages of 



the progress of the product to market, 



— Economic gain in advertising, 261. 



— Economic gain possible only with an 



assured volume of business proportioned 

 to outlay for plant and expenses, 273. 



— Employment of brokers vs. traveling 



salesmen, 275-277. 



— Local ; difficulty of uniting them under one 



head, 492. 503- , , , . 



— Methods necessary to the sale of products, 



— No economic gain in elimination of whole- 



saler or retailer, 264. 



— Not yet usually competent to maintain 



branch selling agencies, 274. 



— Objects of in California, 232. 



— Opposed to law of natural selection, 271. 



— Relations of with wholesale merchants, 



260. . . 



— Should not borrow from commission men. 



213. 



— Substantiallv Trusts, 509, 522. 



— Summary of economic gains by, 270. 



— Vs cooperative purchasing societies, 260, 



278. 

 Cooperative Societies, British, 211. 



— Business capacity of indicated by direc- 



tors, 213. 



— Can not safely incur debt, 229. 



— Caution in beginning business essential, 



— Danger from ignorance of stockholders, 



— Danger from infirm will of stockholders, 



— Danger from neglect of stockholders, 234. 



— Danger from incompetent management, 



— Danger from suspicion of stockholders, 



— Directors should not pledge their personal 



credit for, 228. , . ^ . j j t 



— Economic gain by raising the standard of 



business morals, 271-273. . . 



— Encouraged by those who will not ]oin, 



— Hovv to determinequaliiicationsof possible 



managers, 246-260. 



— Illustrative instance of failure of, 223, 237. 



— Importance of good secretary and presi- 



dent, 227. 



— List of in California, 603. 



— Management quite sure to be honest, 227. 



— Managers must be honest, 240. 



— Managers must be vigorous, 243. 



— Managers must have ability, 243. 



— Managers must have experience, or socie- 



ties must pay for their mistakes, 244. 



— Managers must have tact, 244. 



Cooperative Societies, managers must not be 

 pecuniarily distressed, 247. 



— Managers not necessarily accumulating 



men, 239. ,• , 



— Managers require all the cardinal and 



minor virtues, 245. 



— Managers sure to be suspected, 242. 



— Managers sure to be tempted, 241. 



— Management of, 240. 



— Members not entitled to half-paid serv- 



ice, 256. 



— Membership always responsible for failure 



of, 221. 



— Must do business only for cash, 214. 



— Objects of among farmers, must be sim- 



ple, 233, 602. 



— Perfect managers probably not attainable, 



240. 



— Suspicion of managers of, 502. 



— Waste of energy in holding membership 



together, 245. 



— When may be expected to succeed, 214. 

 Cooperative Stores, 94, 210, 602. 



— How made successful, 214. 



Cornell University; work of in common 



schools of New York, 60, 553, 560. 

 Corporations; advantages of, 219. 



— Assessments on paid-up stock evidence of 



mismanagement, 221. 



— Assessments on stock of, 220, 221. 



— By-laws of, 224. 



— Can do only such business as charter 



specifies, 223. 

 —Caution in drawing up the charter essen- 

 tial, 224. 



— Definition of, 219. 



— For cooperative purposes, 218. 



— Legal advice in forming desirable, 225. 

 —Popular prejudice against, 218. 



— Safer than partnerships, 220. 

 Corners, speculative ; how settled, 178. 



— Speculative, meaning of, i77- 



— Results of, 177- , .,■.«. 

 Corruption in Legislatures; how it affects 



railroads, 159. 



— Opportunities for in legislative positions. 



Costs, decrease in manufactured goods, 



— Farmers must learn to reduce, 33. 



— Of produce not generally known by farm- 



ers, 3S. .. 



— Reduced by studies of scientific men, 33. 



— Reduction possible only by study of de- 



tails, 35. , . . 



— Work of chemists and engineers in re- 



ducing, 33- 

 Country Life easier than city life, 92. 

 Courses, short ; in agriculture, 51. 55i- 

 Cover crops ; plants suitable for, 86. 

 Credit ; business transactions depend upon 



it, 355- 



— Results of failure of, 355- .. 

 Creditors; will respect maiihness and cour- 

 age in debtors, in. 



Crime, of 1873 a mytli. 359-. ^ ., „. 

 Crop; necessilv of adaptation to soil, h'6. 

 Currency, bad; the poorest people sutler 

 most by it, 139. 



— Bank : elasticity of, 148. 



— Government ; danger of overissues, 148. 



— Government ; loans to the people ni. 



148. 



— Government vs. bank notes, 146, 149. 



— Inflated ; not good money, 344. 347- 



— Question, object of study of, 610. 



— Statistical authorities for, 613. 



— Statistics of, 610-645. 



