x PREFATORY NOTE 



" Traders, Farmers and Agricultural Organisation : An 

 Inquiry into an Alleged Conflict of Interests " (1912). 



It may be thus considered that I am not entirely devoid 

 of qualifications for the task here attempted, while the 

 foregoing record of facts may help the British public to realise, 

 from the historical standpoint, the length of time it has 

 taken for what should have been regarded from the outset 

 as a National movement to be eventually established alike 

 on a National and on a sound economic basis. 



To Mr. J. Nugent Harris, Secretary of the Agricultural 

 Organisation Society, and to the leading members of his 

 Staff I have to express my cordial acknowledgments for 

 assistance rendered to me in collating the details given as 

 to the various phases of the work done by that most active 

 of bodies. 



EDWIN A. PRATT. 



October, 1912. 



