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INDEX 



Portugal, early combinations in, 3 

 Post Office Savings Banks and 

 Agricultural Credit Societies, 228 

 Potatoes : Co-operative societies for 

 sale of, 25 ; imports, 56 ; advan- 

 tage of grading, 161 

 Poultry : In Germany, 25 ; im- 

 provement societies, 36 ; im- 

 ports, 56, 63 ; home production, 

 62, 63 ; Ireland, 80 ; Denmark, 

 133 ; Scotland, 133 ; National 

 Poultry Organisation Society, 

 186-9 ; demonstration train, 

 1 88 ; poultry industry instruc- 

 tion, 189-190; marketing, 190-1; 

 National Poultry Institute, 190 ; 

 International Society of Poultry 

 Instructors, 190 

 Preston and District Farmers' 



Trading Society, 213 

 Pretyman, Captain, 93 

 Protection and agriculture, 91 

 Purchase, Co-operative : In Ger- 

 many, 22-4 ; Denmark, 30, 31, 

 32 ; Holland, 33-4 ; Belgium, 

 35 37 India, 40 ; Japan, 41 ; 

 United States, 43 ; purchase 

 societies the simplest form of 

 combination, 99 ; Great Britain, 

 109-112, 138, 193 



RABBiT-improvement societies, 36 



Raiffeisen system, 6, 7, 16, 22-3, 

 27.36 



Railway rates, 141-152, 154, 171 



Railway station dep6ts, 153 



Railways, The, and agriculture, 93, 

 94, 99, 104, 140-159, 170-2 



Rankin, Mr. James, 96 



Read, Mr. Clare Sewell, 100 



Reading rooms, 17 



Recess Committee, The, 78 



Ree, Mr. Frank, 143, 144, 150 



Refrigeration, 9 



Rew,Mr. R. H., 62, 88, 90, 96, 100, 142 



" Rings," 8, 81, 109 



Ritchie, Mr., 140, 141 



Roosevelt, Mr., and country life, 

 45-6, 253 



Royal Agricultural College, Ciren- 

 cester, no (note) 



Royal Agricultural Society of Eng- 

 land, 3 



Royal Dublin Society, 3 



Russell, Sir George, 141 



SALE, Co-operation for : 14 ; in 

 United States, 43-4 ; Ireland, 

 82 ; market garden produce, 

 161-9 ; dairy industry, 173-182 ; 



eggs and poultry, 190-4 ; live 

 stock, 197-200 ; grain, hay, 

 seeds, 200-2 ; wool, 202-4 ; hops 

 204-7 



Salisbury, The Marchioness of, 125 

 Scalford Dairy Society, 177-8 

 Scawby Agricultural Credit So- 

 ciety, 220-2 



Scotland, Agricultural organisa- 

 tion in, 105, in, 131-4 (See also 

 " Scottish A. O.-S.") 

 Scottish Agricultural Commission 



to Denmark, 132-4 

 Scottish Agricultural Organisation 



Society, 112, 122, 130, 134-5 

 Scottish Chamber of Agriculture, 



132 



Seeds, 81, no, 200-1 

 Shaftesbury, The Earl of, 127, 138 

 Sheep breeding. Societies for, 30 

 Sinclair, Captain John, 132 

 Small holders and co-operation, 



123-4, 168-9 



Small Holdings Act, 123-4, I ^8, 231 

 Small Holdings Commissioners, 234 

 Small Holdings Fund grant, 122-4 

 Smith, Mr. Albert H., 127 

 Smith, Mr. Clement, 127 

 Smith, Mr. F. C., 112 

 Smithfield Club, 3 

 Social aspects, 16-18, 83 

 Soulby, Mr. A. E. B., 241 

 South-Eastern Railway, 141-2, 144 

 Southern Counties Agricultural 



Trading Society, 139, 199, 200 

 Spark, Mr. W. T., 215 

 Stalbridge, Lord, 141 

 Stanhope, Earl, 96 

 Stanley, The Hon. A. L., 241 

 Starch factories, co-operative, 25, 27 

 State policy : 2, 20-1 France, 

 28 ; Holland, 33 ; Ind a, 38, 40 ; 

 shortcomings of, 71 United 

 Kingdom, 114-8, 122-131, 230 ; 

 Denmark, 133 

 Steam and transport, 9 

 Steel, Mr. Alec, 101 

 Strachie, Lord, 127 

 Strutt, The Hon. Edward, 127 

 Stuart-Wortley, R.N., Captain, 100 

 Sugar manufacture societies, 27 

 Surplus stocks, utilisation of, 70 

 Sutherland, The Duke of, 143 

 Syndicates, agricultural, in France, 

 26 



TELEGRAPHY, 9 



Telephones, co-operation and : 



United States, 45 ; England and 



Wales, 247-9 



