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farmers. They must, in fact, become salesmen 

 as well as buyers. 



So much has been written about co-opera- 

 tion that the subject has become an accepted 

 commonplace — accepted in all but its practical 

 application. But here I should like to break 

 up new ground. 



We were told in the spring of 1911 that 

 the Board of Agriculture had applied for 

 £20,000 from the Development Commissioners 

 for the organisation of co-operation. But on 

 the 26th of June of the same year, when the 

 Report of the Commissioners was published, 

 we learnt that the £20,000 was still under 

 consideration,^ and yet a sum of no less than 

 £41,050 was recommended to be advanced 

 by the Board for light horse-breeding ! Of 

 course we know that fox-hunting is still an 

 important industry in England. In fact, we 

 were informed by a noble earl that without 

 it the British Empire would fall into a state 

 of decay. Still, one would have imagined that 

 a stronger case might have been made by the 



' Tlie Development Commissioners, I am aware, made a further 

 grant of £'50,000 a year for scientific research (26th August 

 1911). Let us hope those trained to teach will be fieldsmen and 

 not schoolmen, that is, men not afraid to take oif their coat and 

 handle a plough. 



