THE AGRICULTURAI, ORGANIZATION SOCIETY 



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Class of Scxuety 



No. of Societies 



No. of Members 



Turnover 



Purchase of Agricultural Requirements 



Dairy 



Egg and Poultry 



Auction and Produce 



Small Holdings and Allotments .... 



Miscellaneous 



Credit 



550 



55,831 



3,428,960 



The following are the ten counties in which the co-operative societies 

 had a turnover running into six figures : 



County 



No. of Societies 



No. of Members 



Suffolk .... 

 Yorkshire . . . 

 Hampshire . . 

 Carmarthen . . 

 I^ncashire . . 

 Cheshire. . . . 

 Wiltshire . . . 

 Gloucestershire. 



Essex 



lyondon .... 



5 

 44 

 31 

 10 

 II 

 10 

 27 

 10 



9 

 13 



The importance of co-operation in each of these counties except Glou- 

 cestersliire is explained by the existence in it of one very strong society. 

 In 1915-1916 a co-operative society for the purchase of agricultural imple- 

 ments in each of the first six of them, and a co-operative dairy society in 

 Wiltshire, in Essex and in London, had itself a turnover rurming into six 

 figures. In Gloucestershire several societies of secondary importance 

 were responsible for the large turnover. 



In the report of the parent society the affiliated societies are'^critici- 

 zed for their frequent lack of sufficient working capital. " Hardly any 



