The St. Johns herald., 1922-02-02
Continued from last week.

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 Second: weighing and grading of agricultural products, and cerrlfcatiOn thereof, to be done by impartial and disinterested public inspectors (this Is already accomplished to some extent by the federal licensing of weighers and graders), to eliminate underpay- ing, overcharging, and unfair grading, and to facilitate the utilization of the stored products as the basis of credit.
 Third: a certainty of credit sufficient to enable the marketing of products in an orderly manner.
 Fourth: the Department of Agricui- ture should collect, tabulate, summa- rIze, and regularly and frequently pub Iish and distribute to the farmers, full information from all the markets of the world, so that they shall be as we'll informed of their selling position as buyers now are of their buying posi- tion.
 Fifth: freedom to lntegrate the busi- ness of agriculture by means of con. sOlldated selling agencies, co-Ordlnat- ing and cooperating in such way as to put the farmer on an equal footing with the large buyers of his products. and with commercial relations In other industries
 When a business requires specialized talent, 1t has to buy It. So will the farmers and perhaps the best way for them to get it would be to utilize some of the present machinery of the larg. est established agencies dealing In farm products. Of course, If he wishes, the farmer may go further and engage in four-milllng and other manufactures of food products. In my opinion, however, he would be wise to stop short of that Public interest may be opposed to all great integrations; but In justice. should they be forbidden to the farmer and permitted to others? The corporate form of association can not now be wholly adapted to his ob- jects and conditions. The loOser CO., operative form seems more generally suitable. Therefore, he wishes to be free. if he finds It desirable and feas- ibla, to resort to cooperation with his fellows and neighbOrs, without run ming afOuI of the law. To urge that the farmers should have the same lib- erty to consolidate and coordinate their peculiar economic functions, which other industries in their fields enjoy, Is not, however, to cOncede that any business integration should have legislative sanction to exercise mon0p- olistIc power. The American people are as firmly opposed to industrial as to political autocracy, whether at- tempted by rural or by urban industry
 For lack of united effort the farmers as a whole are still marketing their crops by antlquated methods, or by no methods at all, but they are surrounded by a business world that has been modernized to the last minute and Is tirelessly striving for efficiency. This efficiency Is due in large measure to big business, to united business, to in- tegrated business. The farmers new seek the benefits of such largeness, un. ion and lntegratiOn.
 The American farmer Is a modern of the moderns in the use of labor saving machinery, and he has made vast strides in recent years in scientific tiIlage and efficient farm management, but as a business in contact with other businesses agriculture Is a "One horse shay" in competition with high power automobiles. The American farmer Is the greatest and most intractable of indIviduallsts. While industrial pro- ductiOn and all phases of the huge com, mercial mechanism and Its myriad ac- cessories have articulated and cO-ordi- mated themselves all the way from nat ural raw materials to retail sales, the business of agriculture has gone on in much the one man fashion of the back. woods of the first part of the nine .eenth century. when the farmer was self sufficient and dld not depend upon, or care very much, what the great the agricultural group is almost as much at a disadvantage in dealing with other economic groups as the jay farm CT of the funny pages in the hands of sleek urban confidence men, who sell him acreage in Central Park or the Chicago city hall. The leaders of the farmers thoroughly understand this, and they are Intelligently striving te integrate their industry SC that 1t will be on an equal footing with ether busi- nesSea.
 As an example sf tntegratien, take the steel Industry, in which the moda Is the URlted States Steel Corporation. with it's iron mines, It's coal mines, ita lake and rail transportation, It's ocean vessels, its by-pr0duet coke ovens, it's hlasf furnaces fla O0An hearth and