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advantage in that section. If it does not grow to advantage, 

 it should not be grovTi at all, so the factory need not prepare 

 for it. A certain fair price should be fixed for the factory 

 to pay on all vegetables and fruits offered. Then, when the 

 season's work is ended, all profits should be divided among 

 the growers according to the amount of produce each man has 

 furnished. For instance, suppose ten growers furnished 

 tomatoes amounting to ten thousand bushels, and the profits 

 from the tomato canning amounted to one thousand dollars, 

 that w^ould be a profit of ten cents per bushel. So the man 

 who furnished two thousand bushels would receive an extra 

 dividend of two hundred dollars, while the man who furnished 

 but five hundred bushels would get but fifty dollars. If a 

 thousand bushels of string beans were canned and the pro- 

 fits were five cents per bushel, the one-hundred-bushel man 

 would receive five dollars extra and the ten-bushel man would 

 get fifty cents as his extra dividend. By this method, every- 

 one is placed on an equal basis. If the market for fresh goods 

 is low and one neighbor takes his goods to the factory and 

 thus relieves the market of his surplus, letting his neighbor 

 get the advantage of the higher prices which come from a 

 reduced offering, w^hen there is any profi.t made by the fac- 

 tory, that profit belongs to him because he has furnished all 

 the raw material. 



The factory should also be allowed to sell fresh goods on 

 the market, should the market for the fresh goods advance 

 before goods on hand are canned. So the canning factory 

 really becomes a market house for the growers as well as a 

 cannery for the surplus. In this way all the profit in the 

 business can be obtained; for the factory, being a growers^ 

 organization, can sell what it can and what it can't sell it can 

 can. 



The Cannery For The Boy, 



A moment ago I said that the cooperative cannery should 

 be managed by some young man who had been brought up in 

 the country, and this brings up the thought how to keep the 

 young man on the farm. I believe that the home cannery 

 in many sections will offer a solution to the question of how^ 

 to keep the boy on the farm. Away down in the heart of 



