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is thought of as wonderful. The cooperative system can really be something like sharecropping. It all depends on what the circumstances are, whether the land is good enough, whether the seed is good enough, whether the fertilizer is good enough, whether the division into shares is just. When you have seen it worked fairly, as I have in one or two places, it's all right.

The fishing industry down in Maine often works on a basis that is so like sharecropping. They don't know it and they don't think so, but it is. One man and one boat doesn't get enough lobsters to make it a very profitable industry, but they have the “gear.” They lend the traps to other men. All the men who work those sets of traps pool their boats, spell each other on the times for pulling traps. They can pull traps early in the morning and late at night, as well as in the middle of the day, so they get every lobster crawling around that part of the ocean. Then they bring them all into the pound. One man owns the pound. Every man keeps track of every lobster he catches. He knows just how many lobsters he caught on the morning pull. Then they share up. Every now and then they have a big fight, great argument. Sometimes they even go to court as to whether the share has been proper or not, but they're more likely to settle it in some court of their