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in the hands of Chinese and Hawaiians. There seems to be no 
good reason, however, why it should not be possible ultimately 
to combine all races concerned in the production of truck crops 
and fruit in a given locality. 
One of the far reaching effects of co-operative associations 
among farmers is to be sought in the educational influence of 
such organizations. The farmer is often too prone to neglect 
study along the line of his own business. Without encourage- 
ment and stimulus of associates, lines of reading and study once 
taken up may be abandoned and old methods are persisted in 
without an attempt at improvement. Our federal and state gov- 
ernments have for years provided more liberally for agricultural 
investigation than any other country. The results of these inves- 
tigations are published and distributed gratis throughout all the 
states and territories. The bulletins, circulars and reports of the 
United States Department of Agriculture and Experiment Sta- 
tions constitute together an enormous mass of literature relating 
to all lines of agriculture. Some of the more technical publica- 
tions are not for general distribution, but the most of this mass 
of literature is to be had for the asking, and those bulletins and 
reports which relate to the lines of work of each particular 
farmer should be in his home library. Too often, however, it 
happens that individual interest is manifested in agricultural in- 
vestigation merely long enough to write for bulletins and reports 
on subjects in which the farmer in question is interested, but the 
interest may end here and the bulletins and reports may not be 
read. With the establishment of co-operative associations an 
added impetus is given to the study of such literature. At the 
regular meetings which such associations may have for business 
and educational purposes, discussions are held on important pub- 
lications relating to the business in hand, and these publications 
bear fruit in their application to actual farm conditions. The 
farmer himself is the final judge as to the applicability of agricul- 
tural research to his own conditions, but unless the available liter- 
ature is studied, with this idea in mind, the suggestions in such 
literature are made in vain and lie concealed in the home library. 
The United States Department of Agriculture, State Experiment 
Stations and State Departments of Agriculture have long shown 
a willingness to make special efforts toward providing sets as 
complete as possible of their publications for the use of any asso- 
ciations of farmers which have educational objects in view. 
Another immediate effect of associations among farmers is 
concerned with the improvement of the status of social conditions 
on the farm. Persons who were born on farms and have grown 
up under the conditions furnished by farm life, have naturally be- 
