WORK DONE OR PROJECTED 



197 



YEAR. 



1906 

 1907 

 1908 

 1909 

 1910 

 1911 



VALUES OF IMPORTS OF POULTRY 



FROM 

 Russia. United States. 







185,635 243,750 



2 7 I 357 202,065 



354,394 153,544 



35 I ,3<>3 I49.55 2 



303,260 88,144 



404,994 137,469 



It need hardly be said that fresh-killed English poultry 

 ought to have a better chance on our own markets than 

 poultry from either Russia or the United States, or elsewhere. 

 Certain is it, also, that poultry ought to enter far more 

 largely into the dietary of the average English household 

 than is actually the case ; yet the co-operative fattening 

 and sale of poultry in which there is a vast field awaiting 

 development has hitherto scarcely been touched. 



So it may be suggested that the remark as to the oppor- 

 tunities for a development of the egg and poultry industry 

 here having never been greater than they are at the present 

 time is in no way exaggerated ; yet full advantage can be 

 taken of those opportunities only by adherence to the dual 

 principles laid down by the Agricultural Organisation 

 Society and the National Poultry Organisation Society, 

 namely, better teaching to secure improved production, and 

 organised marketing to ensure more remunerative sales. 



D. SALE OF LIVE STOCK. 



Progress in the co-operative sale of live stock has 

 hitherto been comparatively slow. Apart from the ordinary 

 difficulties in the way of organising combination for sale 

 there are, when such combination relates to live stock, great 

 and powerful vested interests to be faced. " Rings " of 

 traders naturally object to, and fight against, innovations 

 likely to diminish their own profits, and even buyers who 

 have not formed such rings may strongly disapprove of 

 changes in established methods until it is shown that they, 

 too, may benefit through those reductions in the scales for 



