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instance where, by this means, the society was 

 able to save sufficient on the railway rates to 

 pay for the cost of the corn elevator. Financial 

 arrangements were, at the same time, made by 

 which the farmers obtained advances from the 

 banks on the corn they sent to the elevators, 

 and, with these advances in hand, they were 

 able to wait for the balance until such time as 

 the sale could be effected to the best advantage. 



So well has this further development in the 

 way of agricultural combination answered in 

 Hungary that a central organization is being 

 projected for the express purpose of encouraging 

 and facilitating the construction of co-operative 

 corn-elevators in all the corn-growing districts 

 of the country. 



Additional evidence of the way in which the 

 general system is operating in Hungary may be 

 obtained from an account of the second exhibi- 

 tion of the Hungarian National Agricultural 

 Society, at Pozsony, communicated by Mr. 

 Edward Brown to the Journal of the Board 

 of Agriculture for December, 1902. There, 

 among other things, one may read : — 



Various displays made by the local or village societies, 

 which have done such good work in Hungary, were of 

 special interest as showing what can be accomplished by 

 combined effort. An arrangemenl is here worthy of note, 



