CO-OPERATION. 



member loyal that was disposed to be otherwise, or keep him from 

 making a contract with the association, which in my estimation would 

 not hurt the association one iota. 



Just a word regarding common need. I would make that impera- 

 tive need, and just so long as that need exists, just so long will 

 your association flourish; but after your association has corrected 

 some of the wrongs that existed at the time it was founded, then 

 you will begin to have members drop out, and you will find who are 

 loyal and who are not. Your association at this time will get down to 

 a good working membership. 



Gentlemen, our business of growing farm produce is the greatest 

 of all businesses, the most indispensable, the most closely related 

 to the every day needs of every human being; and our investments 

 in total are the greatest asset of the country. And I hope to live 

 to see the day when we will be so organized in all lines of farming 

 that we can go to the buyer and say, "I have so many baskets of peas, 

 so many boxes of apples, so many crates of cauliflower and my price 

 is so and so," in place of going up to him, as we do now, with fear 

 and trembling and saying — *'What will you give? make me an offer!" 



I thank you. 



