150 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



Poultry Federation, into which has been 

 merged the National Poultry Organisation. 

 It was obvious to all intelligent poultry- 

 keepers that it would be fatal to success to 

 have each poultry society competing against 

 the others in various parts of the country for 

 large contracts. By federating and keeping a 

 record at some central office, the affiliated 

 societies prevent large dairy companies from 

 playing off one society against another. This 

 is a step in the right direction towards the 

 complete and effective organisation of our 

 national poultry industry. 



The Street Society has still two strongholds 

 to conquer before it can be assured of an 

 abiding success. One is the railway company, 

 and the other is the market-place in which 

 the producer can hand over his wares to the 

 consumer over the municipal counter. 



The Wholesale and Distributive Co- 

 operative Societies on their part should identify 

 themselves more thoroughly than they do with 

 co-operative farm production. It should be as 

 natural as the dawn following the night, for 

 the co-operative store to buy their eggs and 

 their poultry from a Co-operative Poultry and 

 Egg-Supplying Society. But the trading 



