17 INTRODUCTION 



Associate! Co-operate! 



You may not know it, but the world is turn- 

 ing from private trade to co-operation at a fast 

 rate. In some countries most of the farmers 

 do all their business by co-operation. 



Co-operation is simple and sure and safe, 

 when enough people want it and are shown how. 



I have practiced co-operation in my business 

 for twenty-three years. I have been intimate 

 with it the world over for twenty-five years. 

 I have seen it grow and grow until it numbers 

 its millions of workers in some countries, and is 

 doubling every five years in many countries 

 and states. Though I am a manufacturer, my 

 chief occupation is to preach and teach co- 

 operation to farmers — at my own expense. 



Co-operative creameries have changed Min- 

 nesota from a declining wheat state to a rich 

 dairy state. Co-operation has saved the Cali- 

 fornia orange grower from bankruptcy and 

 made him prosperous; it has raised Denmark's 

 exports of butter, eggs and bacon from eighteen 

 to eighty millions a year, and it has almost cut 

 off our supply of policemen and politicians from 

 Ireland, because over a thousand co-operative 

 associations have grown up there in twenty 

 years. 



After you have undertaken what this book 



