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improvements/' in the way of social and economic progress, 

 has naturally resorted to the main principles of agricultural 

 organisation, and has also developed them at a rate and 

 with a comprehensiveness hardly to be surpassed elsewhere. 

 This latter fact is well brought out by the following Table, 

 which gives the total number of agricultural co-operative 

 associations in Japan in the years mentioned : 



YEAR. 

 1900 

 1901 

 1902 

 1903 

 1904 



NUMBER. 



21 



263 



512 



870 



1,232 



YEAR. 



1906 

 1907 

 1908 

 1909 



NUMBER. 

 1,671 

 2,470 

 3,363 



The figures for 1909 give the position on June 3ist, 

 whereas the others are for December 3ist in the years 

 mentioned. The former thus show an increase for six 

 months only. The total of 5,149 is made up thus : 



SOCIETIES. 



Credit 



Sale 



Purchase 



Production 



Sale and purchase 



Sale and production 



Purchase and production 



Sale, purchase and production 



Credit and sale 



Credit and purchase 



Credit and production 



Credit, purchase and sale 



Credit, purchase and production 



Credit, sale and production 



Credit, sale, purchase and production 



Total 



The estimated number of members of these societies on 

 June 30th, 1909, was 445,092. 



As indicating the eagerness of the Japanese to profit by 

 the experience of other nations, it might be mentioned that, 

 at the request of the Central Association of Japanese 

 Agriculturists a like request subsequently being received 

 from the Home Department of the Bureau of Local Affairs, 

 Tokyo the author of "The Organisation of Agriculture " 



NUMBER. 

 1,864 

 187 



744 



64 



440 



"3 



48 



200 



29 



699 



8 



538 



18 



3 

 194 



