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21. Part of the year was spent in inculcating the advisability of 

 co-operation in the sale offish oil and guano. There have been and will 

 increasingly be demands for large parcels of oil by arsenals, jute mills, etc., 

 and if the isolated producers — isolated in fact though there may be a dozen 

 in a village — combine as members of a co-operative society, it follows that, 

 commanding large parcels, the society can sell to advantage direct to large 

 consumers and thus evade the middlemen or if they sell through or to a 

 middleman, can fix and obtain equitable prices. Moreover since arsenals 

 and factories, etc., often require high class oil, it will pay the members of a 

 society to manufacture such oil and obtain the consequent better prices. 

 On the other hand the consumer obtains large parcels of even quality in 

 one transaction, and, avoiding the middleman, can give or obtain better 

 terms. With guano it is the same ; if societies bulk their products and 

 have them tested, planters, associations, etc., can deal direct for large 

 parcels andean demand a guarantee of quality; this will make for better 

 goods and check adulteration. 



22. Two such societies have begun to work on these lines under 

 inducement from this department, such inducement being backed by con- 

 siderable purchases by the department for the Munitions Board, arsenals, 

 several large planters, etc. It is hoped to see this business developed 

 during the current year. 



23. The Thalayi (near Tellicherry) co-operative curing-yard for which 

 Government have granted direct r aid, only began work in May at the very 

 end of the season : even now it is not completed. 



24. Education. — This was a notable year in this matter. In the 



marginally-noted Government Orders 

 G.Os. No 16, Home (Education), dated . g recorded the higtory of &nd prQ _ 



3rd January 1917, Nos. 20*8-49, dated , c .. , j • j r 



, ,,. oxr j.i/cl posals for the scheme devised for 



27th May 1918, No. 400, dated 6th r 



March 1919, and No. 1185, dated 17th ordinary fisherfolk education, that 

 June 1919. is f° r education other than the 



special technical and scientific educa- 

 tion of an advanced Fishery Institute. The Director of Public Instruction 

 approved of the scheme which was sanctioned by Government ; a Training 

 Institute for the special schoolmasters, who under the scheme have varied 

 duties to perform, has been also sanctioned, a Headmaster appointed and 

 work begun, in a preliminary way, on the 14th July 1919. Several primary 

 schools already started by private agencies in certain villages have been 

 taken over, and inquiries made regarding trial schools in several other 

 villages. The history of fisherfolk education, village or otherwise, is in 

 the future. 



