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find his own market. As he had to find it 

 in the spring, he thought he might as well 

 secure for himself as good a market as he 

 could all the year round. He was still 

 faced with the difficulty which confronts every 

 poultry - keeper working alone ; he still had 

 no chance to enter into the best market of all 

 — providing dairy and restaurant companies 

 with guaranteed new-laid eggs. So he induced 

 others to join him in the formation of a co- 

 operative society in order that they could all 

 market their eggs together in large consign- 

 ments. The spirit of discontent at having to 

 take 6d. a dozen for eggs from the higgler 

 knitted poultry-keepers together, transforming 

 competitors into co-operators.^ 



Originally starting in a small way, and 

 occupying humble premises, the Society now 

 rents ten acres of land and some very substantial 

 farm buildings with a farmhouse. The Society 

 began merely as an egg - collecting society, 

 marketing the eggs for members ; now it is 

 that unique organisation in England — a co- 



^ 'Hie Framliiigham Co-operative Society (Suffolk) was started 

 iu a similar small way by the schoolmaster, Mr. \\'arren. The 

 first depot was an old stable ; uow it has six depots, and the 

 number of eggs marketed iu 1911 reached 4,000,000. 



