no AN AGRICULTURAL FAGGOT. 



number of members in each society was forty-four, the 

 smallest number returned being ten, and the largest ninety. 

 The average quantity of milk dealt with in the year by 

 each society was 210,000 gallons. The average working 

 capital was £2,550, and the average reserve fund £189. 

 The average net profits of seventy of the dairies on the 

 year's working was £168, and fourteen of them returned 

 an average loss of £60. 



Denmark has a large number of agricultural co-opera- 

 tive societies which may be classified as follows : — 



(a) For the breeding and rearing of cattle, horses, and 

 pigs. 



(b) For the manufacture of butter and cheese. There are 

 from 1,100 to 1,200 of these, and roughly it may be said 

 that there is a co-operative dairy society for every parish. 



(c) For bacon-curing or pig-killing. There are about 

 eighteen of these. 



{d) For collecting and exporting eggs. These are now 

 federated in a large central association. 



(e) For bee-keeping. 



(/) For fruit-gardening and horticulture. 



To sum up on this point : the general advantage of 

 co-operation among farmers for the purchase of artificial 

 manures, feeding stuffs, etc., seems, as already noted, to 

 be unquestionable, while as to the desirability of co- 

 operation for the sale of farm produce, it is impossible 

 to assert more than that, under certain conditions, it 

 has proved highly successful, although it must also be 

 added that success has been by no means uniform. I 

 venture to think that the conclusion arrived at, after 

 much consideration and inquiry, and drawn up in very 

 measured terms, by a Committee of the Central Chamber 

 of Agriculture, is sound : — 



Nothing which has come before the Committee has led them 

 to believe that the profits of all English farmers could be 

 straightway increased by the adoption of any universal 

 system of co-operation, even supposing that the establishment 



