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for the consignment of the eggs and for supervision be entrusted to the exe- 

 cutive of the organization or a specially appointed egg marketing com- 

 mittee, which should first arrange for one or more collecting depots at the 

 local centre or the point of consignment. It is suggested that the trades- 

 men who have hitherto been handling the eggs be included in the arrange- 

 ment, and co-operate as local consigners, each of them receiving one cent, 

 per dozen eggs or 30 cents, a case for his work. lyocal consigners should 

 make a point of sending eggs to the grading station as soon as they have 

 accumulated a sufficient quantity of them. 



All local poultry farmers should be allotted numbers by the local con- 

 signers, each consigner using a particular range of numbers. This system 

 will render the identification of the eggs certain. 



§ 4. lyKGISLATIOX AS TO AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATION 

 IN NOVA SCOTIA. 



In the year 1908 an " Act to Facilitate the Incorporation of theFarm- 

 mers' Fruit Produce and Warehouse Associations " was passed by the le- 

 gislature of Nova Scotia. It has been amended from time to time, and now 

 contains special provisions allowing local companies of farmers and fruit 

 growers to unite for the purchase of supplies of all kinds, and for disposing 

 of farm produce, including fruit, field crops, live stock and live stock pro- 

 ducts. Other provisions enable the union of local companies which wish 

 to co-operate with each other. Such a union is exemplified in the United 

 Fruit Companies of Nova Scotia, an organization which buys and which 

 distributes among the local units produce of the kinds already mentioned, 

 and which disposes of produce which farmers wish to market co-operatively. 

 Hitherto the companies organized under this Act have been in the fruit 

 growing districts, but there is nothing to prevent such organization on the 

 part of farmers in any district of the province, whether or not they be fruit 

 growers. 



In 1914 " The Farmers' Co-operative Societies Act, 1914 ", was pas- 

 sed. It provides for the incorporation without fee under the Nova Scotia 

 Companies' Act of any society of farmers; and allows them toco-operate 

 for the purchase of " manures and artificial fertilizers of all kinds, feeding 

 stuffs, seeds, spraying materials, spraying outfits, and farming outfits of 

 all kinds ", and for the sale of any farm produce. They are limited as to 

 the objects they may purchase, practically to materials directly necessary 

 to agriculture, household commodities being excluded, but they may sell 

 any farm produce, including live stock. The Department of Agriculture 

 has usually recommended societies of farmers in all but the fruit growing 

 districts to co-operate under this latter Act. 



It was felt however that it might be disastrous to grant too wide pow- 

 ers to such societies in the less closely settled parts of the province. Hence 

 all the societies in the Annapolis Valley and the adjoining fruit growing 



