The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-22
Good Prices Insure
 Farmers Profits

: terS ASSOc1aJed EIIOrI- ' The Cooperative Move ment Worldwide.
 (Edftorial written expressly for the xOrange Judd Agricultural Weekl1es. by its editor-in-chtef, as result of personal investigation of conditions Tn 6orelgn lands as we'll as in the United States and Canada.)
 Business is good and industry hum ming throughout the world, with the single exception of the United States
 Yet natural conditions are much the same in Europe as in America. [ The midsummer drouth in England and throughout that portion of Flu rope north of Italy. has been relative ly more severe than in the United
 Germany, France and England are ,parched brown and withered far more generally than is the case in this country.
 Crop Shortages in Other Lands.
 The early harvested grains in Eu- rope and England made fair yield, but there is an awful shortage in Ill lminor crops, fruits and vegetables. | There will be a consequent decline tin the supply of beef, pork and nut iton raised in Europe and Great Brit Jain.
 Russia will probably have less wheat than was expected. The monsoon, or rain-laden winds, are coming too late to save grain and iother crops over large areas in India. | Thus far the planting and growing season in the Argentine has been bet. ter than during the drouthy season Of last year and previously.
 Hot Weather Around the World.
 Meanwhile the great heat that did 50 much damage in the United States during early July, spread around the globe. Temperatures of 100 degrees l, Fahrenheit have caused relatively more suffering and loss in the British Isles and on the Continent than in America.
 Many sections over there are as badly burnt up as the worst stricken spots here.
 August have helped crop prospects lover much of the United States. [ Higher Prices for Farm Products.
 The foregoing conditions, together with increasing population at home land abroad, and continued gold pro- !duction, insure good prices for every thing our American farmers have to sell
 j, But other commodity prices are telightly lower and evidently are not Ito advance The farmer won't have to pay so much for farm and farm ing supplies.
 Therefore 1t looks as though Amer tican farmers taking the country as a whole, would receive fully as great a total value for their labors ana crops of 1911 as was the case during the recent years of large prosperity.
 The Canadian grain crop is not Over-large. and can hardly prevent the full range of prices which world wide conditions warrant. !, More in Marketing.
 With reasonable care upon the part of producers not to glut the live stock market with cattle, sheep and hogs during the autumn months, their val Iues will be we'll maintained.
 There is no valid ground whatever for expecting materially lower prices for live or dead meats. Those who predict the same are deceiving them selves and the public. Such predic- tions may foster awful injury to our vast agricultural interests, unless stockmen and farmers and dealers fully realize the truth of the situation.
 Why Times Are Good Abroad.
 In spite of the incident of drouth, good times prevail abroad, business is active, the financial situation the future of industry. This, in spite of political and social unrest.
 The United States is fully a year behind the rest of the world in this respect.
 With worldwide conditions funda- mentally strong and American finan- ces recovered from the qulre unnec- essary bankers panic of 1907. Natural Forces Will Compel Better
 Business Throughout the
 United States.
 The poIitica1 JJpreSt of a praSidoo tial year therefore should not mate rially retard the coming improvement in business, especially as the public seems to have discounted a change in the national administration, including the senate as we'll as the presidency The Worldwide Cooperative Move i ment. 5 Humanity is going forward, not back.
 Worldwide forms make the for ward evolution irresistible. { Individuals are aSSoclatlnS Into groups. societies, companies, corpo- rations.
 These groups, whether for social, religious. political, labor, agricultural financial or industrial purposes, are likewise cooperating for larger eff ciency.
 The same movement prevails among nations.
 The units of the British empire, while increasingly Independent, yet are more closely com bining for their general welfare.
 In our own states uniformity of laws and association of effort are fac tors making for progress
 Yet in America it is imperative to guard against uSurpation of state tights by the federal government. ev- en more Jealously than Canada, South ]