AGRICULTURAL ORGANISATION 



CHAPTER I. 

 RISE AND DEVELOPMENT. 



THE extent to which agricultural organisation, in some 

 or other of its manifold phases, has been adopted in recent 

 years in almost every civilised country on the face of 

 the globe constitutes one of the most remarkable of 

 economical developments, and one that has, besides, had 

 considerable bearing on general social conditions. 



Of the greatest and most direct interest to those actually 

 engaged in agriculture, the subject is also one that must 

 appeal strongly to all who are in any way interested in the 

 progress of nations ; and the story of how so remarkable a 

 movement was brought about, and of the results to which 

 it has already led, should appeal no less to the average 

 citizen than to the working farmer. It should, further, 

 lead to the conviction that, when so many countries 

 throughout the world which look to the United Kingdom 

 as the best market for their surplus produce are both 

 increasing the volume thereof and strengthening their 

 economic position, it is a matter of special importance 

 that British producers should enquire what are the special 

 advantages which (apart from climatic or other conditions 

 not capable of reproduction here) their foreign competitors 

 have secured for themselves from effective organisation, 

 and to what extent the example set by the foreigner should 

 be followed by the British farmer, alike in the defence and 

 for the promotion of his own interests. 



Conditions naturally vary in all the countries concerned, 



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