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pineapple business, and other industries will receive consider- 
ation as soon as they are taken up seriously and therefore 
furnish enough freight to interest the transportation com- 
panies. It would be contrary to human nature to expect a 
transportation company to g'ive the same attention to one 
crate of vegetables, or some other agricultural product, as 
they would to a large amount of freight coming at regular 
intervals from some established industry. Even the mishaps 
which have been reported as occurring in transit to small ship- 
ments of agricultural products, have often been due to ob- 
vious carelessness in packing this produce and in delivering 
it at a time Avhen delays in shipment Avould be avoided. In 
the matter of transportation, it will, of course, be necessary 
to secure some friendly understanding and cooperation be- 
tween the producers and the transportation companies. The 
latter can not be expected to arrange special facilities for car- 
rying freight which is not in definite prospect. On the other 
hand, the producer is often a man of small means and must 
secure immediate returns from his produce. He, in turn, can 
not wait too long for means to carry his produce safely and 
cheaply to market. It is a practical certainty, however, that 
as soon as a determined effort is made to produce larger quan- 
tities of general agricultural produce suitable means will be 
provided for carrying this freight to market. 
Article VI. 
With the development of modern business methods the 
small producer began to feel his weakness and inability to 
meet the demands of his environment. The cultivator of a 
small area has only small quantities of produce, of wha^tever 
kind he raises, and can, therefore, not occupy an importanc 
place in the market. He receives no special consideration 
fromi buyers or transportation companies and can not deal 
with them in a satisfactory manner. The only solution of this 
difficulty has been found in cooperation. The work and the 
methods which it involves should be familiar to every farmer, 
but, unfortunately, this is not true, particularly for Hawaii. 
On the mainland, cooperative enterprises among farmers at 
IDresent number among their members more than 3,000,000 
individuals and involve more than half the total number of 
farms in the E'nited States. The number of cooperative so- 
cieties on the mainland is nearly 100,000, and these societies 
are concerned in selling fruit, vegetables, nuts, small berries, 
cotton, tobacco, wheat, sweet potatoes, flax, oats, eggs, poultry, 
milk, honey, wool, live stock, etc. There is scarcely any branch 
of farming which has not been organized on a cooperative 
plan in some localit 3 ^ Cooperation extends, not only to the 
