Community civics and rural life . I 1 r \ r—^ -- ? 1 k%^lL^. l» Cooperative Fruit Packing House, Caet the best prices paid. He contracts for the sale of fruit at fairprices. Shipping in large quantities, he gets the advantageof low rates on fast freight trains with refrigerator cars. Uni-form methods of packing fruit are adopted, sometimes thefruit being packed at the central packing house. Informationis distributed as to the best methods of growing fruit, the bestvarieties to grow, and so on. On the other hand, supplies andprovisions are bought in large quantities, securing the bestquality at
Community civics and rural life . I 1 r \ r—^ -- ? 1 k%^lL^. l» Cooperative Fruit Packing House, Caet the best prices paid. He contracts for the sale of fruit at fairprices. Shipping in large quantities, he gets the advantageof low rates on fast freight trains with refrigerator cars. Uni-form methods of packing fruit are adopted, sometimes thefruit being packed at the central packing house. Informationis distributed as to the best methods of growing fruit, the bestvarieties to grow, and so on. On the other hand, supplies andprovisions are bought in large quantities, securing the bestquality at the lowest prices. 28 COMMUNITY CIVICS In cities there are almost innumerable organizations bywhich groups of people cooperate for one purpose or Men in the same line of business or in the samecooperation profession organize to promote their commoninterests. There are boards of trade, chambersof commerce, merchants and manufacturers have their bar associations, physicians their medical. Direct Cooperation in Building Farm Bureau Center HallMen of the community giving their labor. associations. There are associations of teachers, and work-men in the various trades have their unions. Besides suchbusiness and professional organizations, there are clubs ? andassociations of all sorts for men, for women, and even for chil-dren, some of them educational, some social or recreational,some philanthropic, some religious. Where there are so manypeople interested in the same thing, where it is easy for them tomeet together, and where competent leadership is forthcoming,it is quite the usual thing to organize for united action. THE NEED FOR COOPERATION 29 In agricultural communities cooperation has developed moreslowly. Farmers have been too isolated from one another tomake organization easy, they have not fully co8BeratjOI1realized its advantages, and they have lacked in ruralleadership. This has been an obstacle to the commum iesfullest developme
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