Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . st the devising ofmethods of administering such an organiza-tion for the whole fruit district is surely with-in the bounds of to the formation of this co-operative com-pany there would have been a majority of the growersin the district who would have been ready to chal-lenge the feasibility of the scheme. It needed some-one to prove that it could be done. Indeed the yearprevious, when the organization was first conceived,it received a somewhat lukewarm support from itsfriends and a good deal of opposition from all thosewho were not
Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . st the devising ofmethods of administering such an organiza-tion for the whole fruit district is surely with-in the bounds of to the formation of this co-operative com-pany there would have been a majority of the growersin the district who would have been ready to chal-lenge the feasibility of the scheme. It needed some-one to prove that it could be done. Indeed the yearprevious, when the organization was first conceived,it received a somewhat lukewarm support from itsfriends and a good deal of opposition from all thosewho were not members of the organization. Against this spirit of opposition it was enabledto make headway successfully, and this successpromises success in a still larger measure. It isagain a case of the thing being impossible till some-body steps out and does it, then it becomes a com-monplace. Such is the history of all endeavor, andsuch, in all probability, would be the history of anyco-operative policy founded on comprehensive andsystematic Farmers Magazine 23 An Agricultural Introspection NOTWITHSTANDING all that is being saidto-day about increasing opportunities infarming, about farming as a professionand the farmers noble occupation, it remains truethat very few farmers are prominent citizens, veryfew enter public life, and most of them are forcedto be content with small returns for their labor. Afarmer near Guelph told me, in answer to a directquestion, that his total sales from a farm of 75 acresamounted, taking one year with another, to $600or $8 an acre. He said moreover that he was doingbetter than many of his neighbors. He probablyunderestimated his income. As a matter of fact afarmer cannot be trusted in a statement of this that he wishes to deceive, nor that he wonttell, but that he cant tell—he doesnt know. When Iwas teaching school I tried to screw out of my trus-tee board a raise of ten dollars on my salary—I wasthen receiving $375 a year. I pleaded t
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