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from several places and make one load to the 

 packing-house, taking turn about in this service. 

 Small or poor growers may be admitted with a 

 nominal payment, even as low as 25 cents, 

 the remainder to be paid by a 5 per cent, de- 

 duction from his proceeds. 



The association and management can also 

 fill the assembled orders of members for fertil- 

 izer, seed, implements and packing material, 

 at wholesale prices. In time you will make 

 your own boxes, erect a cannery for the surplus 

 and even buy your own groceries co-operatively. 



You can form a credit society with unlimited 

 liability, to receive on deposit the members' 

 surplus and borrow from the city. That money 

 is lent, for productive uses only, to members of 

 known ability and honesty, who give two 

 similar members as security. 



When you get safely started in one kind of 

 co-operative association, you will easily go to 

 the next, as the Danes and the Irish have done. 



St. Louis, Mo. N. O. NeLSON. 



