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Agricultural Co-operation, who would constitute a connect- 

 ing link between the Science of Production and the Science 

 of Distribution, and place Colleges and Organisation 

 Societies in closer touch one with another, on the lines 

 more or less of the Training College for Co-operation set 

 up by the Halle-Wittenberg School of Economics, in 

 Germany (the object of which is "to supply scientific 

 training for those acquiring a theoretic or practical know- 

 ledge of co-operation, especially for persons seeking to 

 qualify themselves for the post of director or as an official 

 in a co-operative society/'), of the Berlin Agricultural 

 High School, where lectures on Co-operation in Rural 

 Districts are given, and of other colleges or high schools 

 in different parts of Germany, which now include co-opera- 

 tion in its various forms among their subjects for special 

 teaching or practical demonstration. 



In addition to all these questions of agricultural economics 

 there is, also, that problem of the Revival of Country Life 

 which, propounded by Sir Horace Plunkett in Ireland, and 

 applied, in turn, to the United States by Mr. Roosevelt, is 

 of no less direct concern to those rural districts of Great 

 Britain which are experiencing a steady exodus of population 

 either to the towns or to other countries. 



Thus the subject of Agricultural Organisation, in its many 

 different phases, may be commended to the attention of the 

 British Public as a National Question well deserving of 

 their serious and most sympathetic attention, while they 

 will see that, although Great Britain has hitherto been behind 

 certain of the other countries in taking this all-important 

 work in hand, the right lines have now been adopted, the 

 difficulties of the pioneering stage have been surmounted, 

 and a happy combination of voluntary effort and State 

 aid, each supplementing the policy and the possibilities of 

 the other, should ensure in the immediate future a greatly 

 accelerated rate of progress, to the advantage alike of 

 agriculture, of agriculturists and of the national well-being 

 as a whole. 



