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Page 63 - and operation of labor, agricultural, or horticultural organizations, instituted for the purposes of mutual help, and not having capital stock or conducted for profit, or to forbid or restrain individual members of such organizations from lawfully carrying out the legitimate objects thereof; nor shall such organizations, or the members thereof, be held or construed to be illegal combinations or conspiracies in restraint of trade, under the antitrust laws.
Page 23 - Copies of these publications may be obtained upon request, while a supply is available, from the Director of Information and Extension FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION US Department of Agriculture WASHINGTON 25, DC
Page 52 - and advancement . . . We must dispense with a surplus of middlemen, not that we are unfriendly to them, but we do not need them.
Page 52 - We propose meeting together, talking together, working together, buying together, selling together, and, in general, acting together for our mutual
Page 65 - It was proposed that large-scale associations be created to handle the entire output of specified crops in the important producing regions. Back of the propaganda with which the idea was presented was the unmentioned but implied promise of monopoly control and monopoly prices. As the farmers caught the hint they became cheerful, at least for a year or two.
Page 18 - act together in: 1. Processing, preparing for market, handling, or marketing farm products, 2. Purchasing, testing, grading, processing, distributing, or furnishing farm supplies, or 3. Furnishing farm business services.
Page 32 - their appreciation for assistance and advice in the research tests and cooperation in conducting the studies on which this publication is mainly based to OG Hankins, RL Hiner, WA Stenhouse, and JH Zeller of the Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Department of Agriculture. They are also much indebted to the other cooperators, as follows: To LJ
Page i - a definite plan of organization whereby all organizations of grain producers can conduct cooperative grain marketing through one or more central organizations or grain exchanges.

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