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machinery and implements have been interested ; the manufac- 

 turers of commercial fertilizer have greatly increased their tonnage 

 in this territory ; and the retail merchants who sell to the farmers, 

 likewise the banks, receive their share by the increase in business. 

 In the past three years we have demonstrated that cooperation for 

 the growers will furnish an agency strong enough to control their 

 products from orchard or field to market. 



