178 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



meant increased money in circulation in the 

 district to the extent of £340. £340 of profit 

 in a brief period in one district as a result of 

 one scheme's co-operation ! At the present 

 time it needs only organisation and the con- 

 sequent solving of the transit question to 

 multiply ten times over the profits derived 

 from the poultry industry." 



Mr. T. W. Russell, the Vice-President of 

 the Department, announced at the Poultry 

 Conference held in Dublin in 1911 that there 

 had been an increase of precisely one million 

 sterling since 1904 in eggs and poultry in 

 Ireland : an increase attributed to the adoption 

 of co-operation. 



Fruit culture is taught on the latest scientific 

 principles at Glasnevin, and now there are 

 over a hundred fruit stations established in 

 Ireland, where fruit culture is still in its infancy. 

 One of the wisest things, perhaps, that the 

 college authorities have done is to lay out the 

 beautifully kept fruit plantation at Glasnevin, 

 for it appears to me that the Irish farmer 

 knows far less about scientific fruit-growing 

 than of the growing of farm crops and the 

 rearing of live-stock. The English farmer 

 is, as we know, traditionally a bad gardener, 



