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have to be created. To this point I shall revert 

 in the concluding chapter. 



Still another body well deserving of public 

 support is the National Poultry Organization 

 Society, which from its headquarters at 12, 

 Hanover Square, W., is striving to encourage 

 and develop the production of the best qualities 

 of poultry and eggs in the United Kingdom, and 

 bring producers into more direct communication 

 with retailers, "thus organizing the system of 

 marketing which at the present time in respect 

 of many parts of the country compares so 

 unfavourably with the methods adopted by 

 foreigners who have perfected their organiza- 

 tions and practically captured the British 

 markets." 



In regard to the action of public authorities 

 in England a concession which ought to be of 

 considerable advantage was made in 1902, when 

 the Board of Education authorized the teaching 

 of the " principles and practice of agricultural 

 co-operation ' under the Technical Instruction 

 Act of 1889. This concession was made on the 

 application of the Agricultural sub-Committee 

 of the Buckinghamshire County Council, sup- 

 ported by the Agricultural Organization Society. 

 It was followed by the appointment, through 

 the society, of an agricultural organizer by the 



