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agricultural machinery which he could not 

 purchase for himself ; and still another will give 

 him skilled advice on all matters connected 

 with the cultivation of his farm. He im- 

 proves his stock with the help of societies 

 organized with this special object in view ; he 

 joins with other farmers in his district in engag- 

 ing the services of an expert who will analyze 

 the milk supplied by each cow, and advise as 

 to feeding, etc.; he sends the milk to a co- 

 operative dairy; he forwards his pigs to a co- 

 operative bacon factory, and he delivers the eggs 

 laid by his fowls to a co-operative egg-export 

 combination, receiving, in each case, not only a 

 better price for the commodity than if he made, 

 or traded, on his own account, but a share also in 

 the profits. Then he joins with his neighbours 

 in insurances of their stock, their farms, and their 

 produce on such lines as to secure the lowest 

 possible terms ; he helps to form agricultural 

 credit banks which will make him and his fellows 

 independent of the professional money-lender ; 

 he has clubs or institutes for the purposes alike 

 of agricultural instruction and social intercourse ; 

 and he ends by producing crops in such abun- 

 dance, and at so comparatively low a cost, that 

 he has no difficulty in competing with the British 

 farmer, who keeps mainly to the practices of his 



