Cooperative Agriculture

 Cooperative agriculture is an index of our times. It is
no longer an experiment, but a major part of the great
swing of the general cooperative movement of recent years.

 So significant has the cooperative method become. that
it has been asked if it is generally adaptable to all commer-
cial activities of human society. Will it eventually displace
practically all private or individual business? Will the co-
operative gradually fuse all interests of buyer and seller?
Cooperatives have been developed to include practically
every phase of business enterprise.

 In any event, cooperative agriculture seems an absolute
necessity if the time-honored occupation of tilling the soil
is to regain and maintain its status as a profitable endeavor.
The necessity of meeting present trends in the capitalist
economy does not lend itself to argument, it is a demand
that must be met, as evidenced by the establishment of
government crop control

 Agricultural partnership in its present development is
the most important change that has taken place in the farm
situation over a long period. Between 1932 and 1934, the
farmers of the United States organized collectively to deal
with their collective interests upon a broader scale than
ever before.

 The growing season of 1933-34 saw 73', of the total
cotton acreage, 77', of the total wheat acreage, 95', of the
total tobacco acreage, and 75M,; of the Nation's hogs covered
by contracts with the Agricultural Adjustment Adminis-
tration

 The significant point where cooperative agriculture de-
parts from traditional methods, lies in the farmer's recogni-
tion that he must think in terms of national as well as