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2°^., The Agricultural Education Department to contribute the technical 

 management, the seeds, plants, material for grafting and, when it judges fit, 

 also the agricultural implements and other farm necessaries. 



3'^'^., The plants produced to be shared equally between the landowner 

 and the Agricultural Education Department. The share due to the latter 

 to be distributed among the farmers of the district gratuitously or at a 

 price fixed in each case. 



It seems the idea has been weU received among the farmers and already 

 some of them have offered areas for the installation of co-operative nurs- 

 eries : the author of the report trusts that, with the extension of fruit farm- 

 ing, these institutions will have beneficial effects in the way of extending agri- 

 cultural education and the co-operative idea. 



(Summarised foiu the Bulletin or the A'^iricultural Dct>artment, Buenos- 

 Aires, October, 191 3). 



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5. — Co-operative movement in the province of entre rios. As we 

 have had occasion to observe already (i), Entre-Rios is one of the Argentine 

 provinces in which the co-operative idea is taking firmest root. Recently se- 

 veral farme s of the Colony of Santa Anita, near Urquiza, have united to 

 found a co-operative society for the collective sale of their produce. 



A representative of the society will be charged to receive the goods at 

 the various stations of the province and sell them. For the deposit of cereals, 

 warehouses will be leased in the railway stations themselves. 



Settlements will be made ten days after the definite sale, and 10 % 

 will be deducted for expenses. No member may sell his produce to outsiders 

 without special authorisation. The society may also give credit to mem- 

 bers. The interest on loans may not exceed 8 %. 



(Summarised from the Gaceta Rural, Buenos-Aires, Jaunary, 1914). 



(i) See in the number of this Biilletin for December, 1913, the article " The Co-op- 

 erative Movement in Argentine Agriculture. " 



