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Quoting from a report drawn up by Dr. Haas, 

 chairman of the Union of Agricultural Co- 

 operative Societies in Rhenish Prussia, Mr. 

 Montgomery also mentions a parish of 1,600 

 inhabitants in Hanover which can boast of five 

 flourishing agricultural co-operative associations, 

 a savings and credit bank, an agricultural supply 

 society, a dairy society, an egg society, a milling 

 society, and a society for the sale of cattle. 



What, therefore, with her very practical and 

 comprehensive system of agricultural education, 

 her elaborate development of an easy and most 

 effective agricultural credit, and, finally, her 

 great variety of agricultural co-operative associa- 

 tions, Germany may well claim to have re- 

 organized the position of the cultivators of her 

 soil in a way that has brought to them a measure 

 of success, and to herself a degree of economic 

 advantage, that would have been impossible if, 

 when they were threatened with agricultural 

 depression, they had clung tenaciously to old 

 ideas and antiquated methods. 



