CHAPTER VII. 

 WORK DONE OR PROJECTED. 



A._ CO-OPERATIVE SALE. 



As compared with the simpler forms of the co-operative 

 principle represented by combination for the joint purchase 

 of agricultural necessaries, co-operative marketing is a 

 matter involving great complexity and presenting manifold 

 difficulties. 



Assuming that production has been conducted under the 

 best and most economical conditions, and the crop duly 

 harvested, there is presented, in the first instance, the 

 question of grading. 



What this may mean to the grower can be illustrated by 

 the concrete fact that a certain expert market gardener 

 who grades most of his produce and sells it to a wholesale 

 dealer, received, in 1912, 5 los. a ton for his graded potatoes 

 at a time when the ordinary market price was only 3 los. 

 per ton. As the crop he had grown would work out at 

 about seven tons to the acre, this higher price meant for 

 him a difference of 14 an acre in his receipts. 



Packing is the next consideration. Foreign fruit may 

 find greater favour on the market than the English, not 

 because it is of better quality, but because it looks better in 

 the well-packed boxes in which it is sent over. 



Combination for the bulking of a collection of small lots 

 all going from the same country station to the same town 

 into a grouped consignment in order to obtain the lowest 

 available railway rates, is no less essential if transport is to 

 be secured under the most favourable conditions. 



Then comes the question as to whether the produce shall 

 be sold on the spot or sent away to be sold in a town. 



In the former case the grower may not get the best 



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