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previously kept the prices down to a level that 

 was absurdly low. The same society has now 

 undertaken the sale of pigs for its members, 

 sending over 50 animals per week to the London 

 market. The Emlyn Society has also been very 

 successful in selling Christmas poultry in bulk, 

 and has increased its turn -over from a few 

 hundred pounds the year to £3,000. 



Of the other societies, one at Lledrod, which 

 started with only eight members, has now 70, 

 almost every farm in the parish being repre- 

 sented in it; the Fishguard and Goodwick has 

 given an order for nearly 400 tons of superphos- 

 phate for its members, this representing the 

 largest grouped order, so far, of any single agri- 

 cultural society in Wales ; and the store of the 

 Carmarthen society is doing a business equal to 

 £100 a week, and has brought about a general 

 reduction in the prices of agricultural necessaries 

 in the district. 



All this looks sufficiently promising ; but, 

 thanks to their new federation, the Welsh 

 societies can now arrange their purchases to still 

 better advantage. The first contract made by 

 the federation was for the delivery of from 1,500 

 to 2,000 tons of basic slag, and the total amount 

 of the business done by the federation in 1903 

 was £25,000. Wales has further distinguished 



