Co-operation By The Alliance

The latest and perha-ps the most significant development in the line of oooperatiou is the purchase of an elevator plant by a farmers' association in Dodge connty, íTeb. The co-operative principie should be as applicable and as beneficent in agricultura as in other industrial fields; and there could be no better occasion or opportunity for the application of the system than is afforded at this time, in the dawn of an era of artificially enhanced prices and enforced methods of economy. Tho alliances now formed or in process of organization in so many states afford a ready basis for combina tion, which if wisely directed should yield important economie resulte. The Alliance has proved to be an important factor in the political field, but it is by no means unlikely that it may yet achieve its most lasting and profitable triumphsin the field of economics, toward which the attention of its