ARGENTINA - CO-OPERATION AND ASSOCIATION 



The writer we quote appeals to the Argentine Rural .Society to combine 

 with the Government Authorities for the extension, by means of assiduous 

 and single minded action, of the movement in behalf of the cow testing 

 associations. 



(SummarisLtl from the Anales dc la Sociedad Rural Argentina. Buenos- 

 Aires, November-December, 1913). 



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3. — A CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY FOR THE SALE OF FRUIT. — On the 

 initiative of the Agricultural Department, a co-operative society for the 

 sale of fruit has been founded at Cordoba. In view of the importance the 

 production of fruit has for the province, the society will be able to develop 

 considerably and be of great benefit alike to the farmers and the consumers. 



The association has a large building, which will be utihsed for exhibitions 

 and shows for which the Government has offered numerous prizes. 



(Summarised from the Gaceta Rural, Buenos-Aires, October, 1913). 



4. — Co-operative nurseries for fruit trees. — The Engineer 

 Francisco Fernandez has dealt Avith this interesting type of association in 

 an official report on the agriculture of the department of Monte Caseros. This 

 region is situated in the extreme south east of the Province of Corrientes, 

 and is 270,000 ha. in area. Besides that the Uruguay bounds it on the 

 East, many other streams traverse it, making irrigation easy through the 

 whole area. 



Although hvestock improvement still prevails here, the conditions of 

 climate and soil make the department a favourable region for the cultiv- 

 ation of ligneous plants, such as vines, olives, Umes, mandarin oranges and 

 all other kinds of fruit trees. Up to the present, however, Uttle or nothing 

 has been done to profit by these resources and to cultivate Ugneous plants 

 on scientific principles, that is carefully to select the varieties, graft and prune, 

 fight diseases etc. 



One of the most effectual means for cultivating fruit on a technically and 

 economically sound system would be, according to the report, to institute 

 a large number of nurseries : they, besides serving for the extensive diffusion 

 of the selected varieties, would also serve as centres of experimenet and 

 instruction. 



The nurseries might belong to the Government or be formed on a 

 mixed system, by the co-operation of private persons with tlie State. In 

 fact in the report it is proposed to found a kind of co-operative society, the 

 members of which would be the General Department of Agricultural Educ- 

 ation and the rural landowners, on the following basis : 



i^*.,The landowner to contribute an area, for 6 or 10 years, according 

 to the locaUty, with the labourers, implements and livestock necessary for 

 the work. 



