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a meeting of the Farmers' Club (London) in 



February, 1903:— 



It has constituted itself a co-operative society for the 

 purchase and sale of agricultural commodities. It has 

 established in 16 peasant-farming villages of the county 

 co-operative stores for the villagers. It has organized in 

 the villages 15 co-operative credit banks affiliated with 

 the National Credit Society, 12 co-operative societies for 

 egg-collection, 7 co-operative dairies, and 1 co-opera- 

 tive society for the collection and sale of corn. It has 

 provided premises for, and started, peasant farmers 1 clubs, 

 with library, reading-room, etc., and winter schools of agri- 

 culture for the farmers 1 sons. Lastly, it has organized 

 a model peasant farm of 57 acres in the heart of the 

 peasant-farming district, which, in common with 80 other 

 farms in other counties, is equipped with the implements 

 and stock considered to be most suitable for the needs of 

 the particular district, the cost being paid for partly by 

 the county and partly by the State. All this it has done 

 in addition to the periodical county or local shows which 

 usually exhaust the imagination of our own county agri- 

 cultural societies. 



The " co-operative society for the collection 

 and sale of corn " here referred to is a form of 

 agricultural combination peculiar to Hungary, 

 and deserves, perhaps, a more detailed notice 

 than Mr. Dymond was able to give to it in his 

 paper. 



Experience had taught the farmers that, so 

 long as each relied on his own individual powers 

 in the disposal of his corn, lie laboured undei 



