Our Departments of Agriculture should cover the whole field of the farmer's life.

It is not enough to touch only one of the three great country problems, even though that is the first in time and perhaps in importance.
Of course we all realize that the growing of crops is the great foundation on which the well-being not only of the farmer but of the whole Nation must depend.

First of all we must have food.

But after that has been achieved, is there nothing more to be done?
It seems to me clear that farmers have as much to gain from good organization as merchants, plumbers, carpenters, or any of the other trades and businesses of the United States.

After we have secured better crops, the next logical and inevitable step is to secure better business organization on the farm, so that each farmer shall get from what he grows the best possible return.
Consider what has been accomplished in Ireland through agricultural cooeperation.