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position in the markets. It should be observed that 

 many societies which sell raw products have estab- 

 lished definite standards with the same effect. 



No country of western Europe, however, has 

 made as much progress in the cooperative selling 

 of farm products as the United States. There is 

 probably nothing to compare in Europe with the 

 citrus cooperative organizations in California, the 

 cooperative wheat and tobacco associations, or the 

 cooperative cotton and vegetable associations of 

 Texas and other states. The fact is, the cooperative 

 selling movement in Europe is not as old as some of 

 the other cooperative activities there. The agricul- 

 tural ministries of most of the countries of western 

 Europe are directing the attention of the farmers 

 of their respective countries to American cooperative 

 enterprises. While visiting the Ministry of Agricul- 

 ture in London recently, the writer was told that the 

 United States was far ahead of Great Britain in co- 

 operative selling of farm products. Denmark and 

 the United States lead the world in this enterprise. 

 It is natural that countries exporting a large surplus 

 of agricultural products should give the most serious 

 consideration to this aspect of agricultural endeavor. 

 But it is an important movement even for those 

 countries where the export surplus is not great, 

 Belgium and Germany are countries coming under 

 this classification. They have made rather remark- 

 able progress in agricultural cooperation. 



The Right Honorable Noel Buxton, former Min- 



