Tin-: AGRARIAN KKFORM OF 1903. 



ie has banded together individuals in vill. 

 Minimi ties of the most 



in ih framework of institutions of 

 hisi undertaken the adminis 



rs of common interest t 

 communal feff :ie peat -bogs. 



In If land, all this organization was an affair of 

 . of the landlord or his agent. Now 

 the landlord has disappeared. The Wyndham 

 Act does indeed contain certain paragrap 

 inserted at the instance of the co-operative 

 lead, rx which provide for the formation of 

 gni 1 turbary committees; but it has not 



1 for the estate any system of com- 

 munal agrii ultural organization. Thus none of 

 of agricultural organi/ation are in 

 ice, except what rest on voluntary co- 

 operative enterprise. Th ificance of the co- 

 operative movement for Ireland therefore does 

 in the fact that it cheapens production 

 1 improves quality. It lies in the fact that 

 through it the erstwhile tenant, now left to 

 himself as a peasant proprietor, gets a backing 

 1 an agricultural education that it opens a 

 way in which the now slowly beginning educa- 

 vity of the State can reach him. On 

 success of this work of agricultural education 

 will depend the measure of success to be 

 achieved by the Irish agrarian reform of the past 

 years. 



m, in spite of the criticism* which 

 I have applied to it, has been an absolutely 



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