102 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Justify. The California Fruit Growers' Exchange, now
Sunkist. Inc did this and many other concerns following
cooperative methods. This eliminated all drain from the
treasury for interest on money invested, which is quite
an item in old line business. Many are organized without
capital stock.



 COPYING THE ECONOMICS OF BIG BUSINESS

 All examples of successful cooperative business ex-
emplify the possibility of conducting the distributive end
of farming on the same principles that are followed by
the big industrial corporations and trusts without the
monopolistic extortions for the benefit of a few stock-
holding exploiters.