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attends members' farms and advises as to whether the pigs 

 inspected should be sent to the West of England, Birmingham, 

 Sheffield, or other distant markets, or should be marketed 

 locally. The pigs are forwarded to the selected market in the 

 name of the association, or, if the member prefers to sell them 

 locally, the expert attends the market and sees that they realise 

 their proper value. If they fail to do so they are bought in. 



An immediate success was secured by this scheme. In 

 the first eight months of its operation pigs to the value of 

 17,352 were sold, and the association's report for 1905 

 said : " This new departure has no doubt greatly, if not 

 entirely, neutralised the effect of the ' ring ' operations 

 which have been carried on so frequently in the past, to the 

 detriment of sellers." 



So well, too, has the initial success been followed up that 

 in 1911 the number of pigs sold by the association was 

 21,154, of a total value of 85,925. 



The Winchcombe (Gloucestershire) Co-operative Auction 

 Mart, Limited, established in 1904, began business in 1905 

 with an auction market which became at once " a complete 

 and striking success," and has maintained its position ever 

 since. It holds 15 sales in the year, and in 1910 it disposed 

 of 6,325 cattle, sheep, pigs and calves. 



At Winchester (Hampshire) a movement for the co- 

 operative sale of live stock was set on foot in 1906. The 

 Winchester Agricultural Trading Society, having such sale 

 as its main object, was formed, and began operations early 

 in 1907. It held weekly sales by auction of all kinds of fat 

 stock in the Southampton market, as well as sales of sheep 

 and lambs at Overton and Alresford fairs, and special spring 

 and autumn sales of store stock at Winchester. The new 

 system was found advantageous alike to sellers and buyers, 

 and the business done steadily advanced, the turnover in 

 1910 being 46,762. The stock sold in that year comprised 

 802 beasts, 1,710 sheep, 716 calves and 86 pigs. In 1909 the 

 name of the society was changed to " The Southern Counties 

 Agricultural Trading Society, Limited/' 



Other societies have also undertaken co-operative sale of 

 live stock. 



