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herself by the fact that Prof. D. D. Williams 

 has delivered a course of lectures at University 

 College, Aberystwyth, on "Agricultural Co- 

 operation." Through the liberality of Mr. 

 Augustus Brigstocke, two scholarships of £10 

 each have been awarded in connection with these 

 lectures, which are to be an annual institution 

 at the College. 



Agricultural organization on essentially prac- 

 tical lines has thus at last made a fair start 

 in England and Wales, and it has done so in 

 a way that already offers abundant scope for 

 a revision of the popular idea that it is hopeless 

 to expect the British farmers to combine as 

 those in other countries are doing. Still, the 

 work thus far done has amounted mainly to 

 preparing the foundations for a really national 

 effort ; and although these foundations have now 

 been laid, after an infinitude of trouble, the con- 

 struction of the edifice to be reared thereon will 

 not proceed at the rate it should unless the 

 builders receive a larger degree of support in 

 the provision of funds for propaganda purposes 

 than has been the case hitherto. 



Another factor in the situation is the absolute 

 need that agricultural credit should go hand-in- 

 hand with agricultural organization. The ne- 

 cessity for this dual arrangement has been 



