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where every facility is offered to unemployed 

 agriculturists to get work. The meetings of the 

 associations, and especially the annual confer- 

 ences of the unions and the banquets that 

 follow them, afford an agreeable change to the 

 generally dull routine of country life. Even 

 the weekly visits to the market towns have in 

 many places been invested with greater interest 

 by the provision of comfortable rooms where 

 members of an association can go with their 

 wives and children (should these be with them), 

 meet one another, rest and refresh, and hold 

 friendly conference on questions of mutual 

 interest. 



All these things are helping to render rural 

 life in France pleasanter and more attractive, 

 at the same time that the material con- 

 siderations already detailed have distinctly 

 improved the agricultural outlook in general. 

 And yet, the organization movement in that 

 country is still incomplete, especially if we 

 compare the conditions of the French dairy 

 industry with those of the same industry in 

 Denmark. 



A certain number of syndicates have, it is 

 true, been formed in France for the carrying 

 on of co-operative dairies on the Danish model, 

 and these are especially to be found in the 



