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FORMULA FOR BUILCINO A SUCCESSFUL FARMER COOPERATIVE
1. A cooperative must render a needed service or improve on an existing
service. Any business that offers a needed service and does it
efficiently and economically will succeed.
2. A cooperative must be managed efficiently, so that its operation will
result in benefits to its members and patrons.
3. A cooperative must have its inception at the ''grass roots" and its
success depends on hov closely its operation follows the needs, desires,
and ambitions of its grass root members and participants.
4. A cooperative must expand...not only offering its services to greater
numbers of people, but also expanding its services in as many. different
fields as it required by the needs and demands of the people it serves.
5. a cooperative must educate, so that those who use it will have a
clear and concise picture of its aim, purpose and intent; and so it will
occupy a substantial and respected place in the loyalty of its members
and patrons, and in the area in which it operates.
By Leonard F. Cowden,Sxecutive Vice-President
and General Manager,
Consumers Cooperatives Associated
GUIDE POSTS FOR FARMER COOPERATIVES
1. This cooperative is owned and democratically controlled b’~ the farm
ers using it.
2. This cooperative is operated to bring maximum returns to the users anc
to serve in the public interest.
3. This cooperative is an extension of production and. marketing facilitie
of individual farmers and encourages all forms of business which will
lower Such costs and the eventual costs to consumers.
4. This cooperative makes refunds and fianl payments on a patronage basis
5. This cooperative has a positive business program of its own ' hich does
not involve criticism of others and other farm organizations.
6. his cooperative is pledged to emphasize areas of agreement between
cooperatives and to study areas of disagreement with other types of bus
iness so as to develop better understanding with others.
7. This cooperative strives to accept its share of community responsibil
ities.
8. This cooperative operates on the highest moral and fcthical standards.
By Karl D. Butler
President, the .American Institute of Cooperation,
Washington D.C,
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CONTROLLED FARM PRODUCTION
Harry J, Peterson, Executive Secretary of the liinnesota Association of
Cooperatives, as guest columinist of the Cooperative Digest brings out
some important points dm the question of Controlled Farm Production:
He discusses the extent to which the government may influence agricul
tural production in the futuro; and whether farmers will accept a greats'
degree of voluntary regulation in agricultural production with a meaauic
of security guaranteed, l.’ill voluntary regulation deptive the farmer
■unduly of his freedom and independence?
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