i8o AGRICULTURAL ORGANISATION 



Society, Ltd., has been established mainly through the zeal 

 and activity of Viscountess Falmouth, of whom the annual 

 report of the A. O. S. for 1910 says : " She has spared 

 neither time nor trouble, and has been the means of creating 

 an enthusiasm for the undertaking that is unique in the 

 history of our movement." Among the objects of the 

 society are the following : 



1. Unification of the dairy industry in Cornwall. 



2. Increase of the dairying area by encouraging and stimulating 

 production. 



3. Uniform standard of produce, and consequent improved 

 status of supplies for the London and provincial markets. 



4. Control of output by means of cold storage in order to secure 

 regularity and continuity of sale at remunerative prices. 



5. Reduction of cost in reaching market by economy in manage- 

 ment and consignments in bulk. 



Collecting depots and a central factory with offices, cold- 

 store plant and separating station, have now been estab- 

 lished. "It is believed," the annual report further says, 

 " that the society will have the effect of greatly stimulating 

 the dairy and poultry industry in the county, and of leading 

 to such developments and extensions, concurrently with 

 greater excellence of manufacture and uniformity of output, 

 as will be of marked advantage to suppliers and indirectly 

 of benefit to the community at large. There are districts 

 in Cornwall where there is little dairying, notwithstanding 

 suitable conditions, and this society hopes that the facilities 

 and inducements for developing the dairy industry and 

 promoting the general agricultural production in such places 

 will be made clear to the people." 



A DAIRY SOCIETIES' FEDERATION. 



It is now proposed to follow up the establishment of these 

 various societies, and to prepare for others still to come, by 

 forming District Federations of Dairy Societies with a view 

 to the holding of periodical conferences by society managers, 

 to discuss questions of common interest. 



