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with the least trouble to themselves and the best assurance 

 of a fair return on their labour. 



In the other instance about thirty small holders have 

 settled on some Crown lands in Lincolnshire, situate about 

 five miles from the nearest railway station. They formed 

 a co-operative society for purchase in March, 1912, and 

 within six weeks they had saved 15 on the clover seed 

 and manures they had bought in common ; but, under 

 existing conditions, each provides for the transport of his 

 own particular lot of produce to the railway station, en route 

 for his own particular salesman in London or the northern 

 counties. Each thus requires to keep a pony and trap 

 or a donkey and cart, though sometimes one of them will 

 confer a favour on a neighbour by taking his consignment 

 for him, and saving him a journey. Allowing both for 

 the actual cost of cartage to the railway station and for 

 the time that may be lost through the majority of the group 

 having to be their own carriers, one sees how (apart from 

 the risks of marketing) the people who are being encouraged 

 to go " back to the land" may be faced from the outset 

 by practical difficulties in the path of success unless they 

 resort to co-operative effort in regard, not simply to one 

 phase, but to all the various phases, of their activity as 

 producers. 



In addition to fruit and market garden produce there 

 are other branches of agricultural production the dairy 

 industry, eggs and poultry, live stock, grain, hay, seeds, 

 etc. in regard to which co-operative sale has already 

 been organised, and there are others, more especially 

 wool and hops, for which co-operative sale is projected. 

 These will be dealt with in the sections that follow. 



B. THE DAIRY INDUSTRY. 



One especially important phase of scientific marketing 

 of agricultural commodities relates to the sale of milk. 



Mention has already been made of the fact that the 

 British farmer gains more from the sale of whole milk than 



