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a contrast to the various farmers' clubs (which 

 are only voluntary associations) and to the com- 

 binations of the aforesaid commercial type. The 

 last-mentioned are registered under the Joint 

 Stock Companies Act. They pay more or less 

 generous fees in salaries to directors, managers, 

 and officials, and they work over an unlimited 

 area for the profit of shareholders ; whereas the 

 co-operative agricultural societies pay no fees or 

 salaries (except, perhaps, a very small sum given 

 to the secretary or manager), they keep to a 

 clearly denned area in their operations (generally 

 from seven to ten miles), and they seek to pro- 

 mote the general welfare of the members rather 

 than to provide dividends. A classified list of 

 fifty-four of the seventy affiliated with the 

 central organization at Dacre House shows their 

 particular purposes to be as follows : — 



Agricultural supply . . . . 31 



Societies combining supply of requirements 

 and sale of produce 



Cheesemaking 



Dairy and bottled milk . . \. 



Rural industries 



Allotment and small holding . 



Societies combining supply of requirements 



and the improvement of live-stock 

 Poultry and egg 

 Improvement of cart horses . 



8 

 3 

 3 

 1 

 3 



3 

 1 

 1 



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