322 AGRICULTURE 





strawberries are grown. The tenant works 

 himself from early morning till night, and 

 employs five labourers, to each of whom 

 he pays i8s. a week. He keeps himself, a 

 wife and five. children on the profits from the 

 sales of his produce, but his outgoings for 

 rent, labour and manure are so heavy that the 

 standard of living of the family is necessarily 

 a low one. 



To men in this position it is important 

 that their produce should be sold to the 

 best advantage, and to secure this result 

 it is recognised that the quality of the 

 articles produced should be maintained at 

 a high level, and that the middleman should 

 be as far as possible eliminated. 



It is with these objects in view that the 

 Dutch market-gardeners have combined for 

 the joint sale of their produce, through the 

 agency of co-operative associations, of which 

 the u Westland " society is one of the most 

 successful. 



The object of the " Westland" society, 



