COOPERATIVE AGRICULTURE


 The same is true of the manufacture of machinery,
furniture, vehicles, mining. etc. A railroad has se vice to
sell but the ones who perform the individual service on the
road or trains are not the ones who set the price This is
the work of the corporate body endowed by law with the
powers of personal entity.

 When farming is done on the bonanza scale the same
process of marketing is followed: The individual worker
sells nothmg but his service; the corporation sells for all
the workers and pays a stipulated wage to them

 When the ow nership and operation is on the small scale
the business is at a serious disadvantage in competing with
the larger business, both in power to handle a distributing
system and in economy of operation. This brings the farmer
of tomorrow face to face with the alternative of collective
marketing among the small farmers or gradually retreat
before the corporation farmer. The corporation has super-
ceded the individual in all othet lines. Even though cor-
poration farming is outlawed it will not do away with the
need of collective distribution.

 We need only to study the cooperative movement, as it
is now progressing on both sides of the sea, to see its possi-
bilities and understand the details of its principles. What
we do is mostly a matter of choice but the consequences of
what we choose to do are meted out to us with cold precision
as destiny swings the pendulum of time.


 CORPORATE BUSINESS

 There are three methods of conducting corporate
 business.

 1. The ordinary joint-stock method;

 2. The co-partnership or profit-sharing method,

 3. The cooperative method.