ii2 AN AGRICULTURAL FAGGOT. 



This forms a fairly complete summary of the results 

 of the inquiries of the Committee with regard to such 

 attempts as have been made in England, and they are 

 not many, to co-operate for the sale of produce ; and they 

 go on to express their belief that co-operation for sale 

 might advantageously be adopted in England in particular 

 districts for particular products. They continue : — 



A district where co-operation for the disposal of produce 

 might be tried with the greatest probability of immediate 

 success would be one where a considerable number of com- 

 paratively small occupiers of land, all engaged in the same 

 class of farming, are clustered together. The products to 

 which the principle of co-operation may be most usefully 

 applied appear to be butter, bacon, milk, poultry, and eggs. 

 In making this statement the Committee must not be under- 

 stood as limiting the possibilities of co-operation, but only as 

 indicating the direction in which from past experience they 

 see most immediate hope of its successful application in this 

 country. 



In conclusion, the Committee express their conviction of 



the soundness of the view strenuously urged by Mr. Plunkett 

 that associations of producers must be really co-operative. 

 In other words, they must consist of and be managed by the 

 producers themselves, who must risk their own money and 

 give their own time to make the enterprise. 



These conclusions were signed by Mr. W. Lipscomb 

 (chairman), Lord Wenlock, the Right Hon. Horace 

 Plunkett, M.P., 1 the Right Hon. J. L. Wharton, M.P., 

 Mr. Yerburgh, M.P., Mr. D'Arcy Wyvill, M.P., Mr. Clare 

 Sewell Read, Mr. S. Rowlandson, Professor Long, Mr. J. 

 Bowen-Jones, Captain Stuart-Wortley, Mr. F. E. Muntz, 

 Mr. T. Latham, Mr. Barfoot-Saunt, and myself. 



It is quite evident that the wide subject set forth at 

 the heading of this article has only been incompletely 

 and imperfectly dealt with. To exhaust it would need a 

 volume. It is a well-worn theme — the desirability of 

 greater combination among farmers — and I make no 

 pretension to have anything very new to say upon it. 

 All I have hoped to do is to touch upon one or two points 

 1 Now The Right. Hon. Sir Horace Plunkett, K.C.V.O. 



