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cultural credit has made but little progress in England 

 and Wales, and no credit societies have as yet been 

 formed in Scotland. The number of credit societies 

 is increasing slowly in England, but the aggregate 

 business is still very trifling." 



In Section 9, headed M Statistics of Agricultural 

 Co-operation in Great Britain," we find the matter 

 summed up. As it sets out the facts concisely and 

 the subject is important, I quote the section : 



" The total number of agricultural co-operative 

 societies formed by or affiliated to the Agricultural 

 Organisation Society in England and Wales on Decem- 

 ber 31, 1909, was 319, with a total membership of 

 19,500, and an estimated aggregate turnover in 1909 of 

 ^860,000. In addition to these societies, the Agricul- 

 tural Organisation Society, in its Annual Report for 

 1909, estimates that there were in England and Wales 

 104 registered agricultural co-operative societies, not 

 affiliated to it, with a membership of about 24,000 

 and an aggregate turnover of about ; 1,100,000. 



" This gives a total of 423 registered co-operative 

 societies in England and Wales in 1909, with a total 

 membership of 43,500 and an aggregate turnover of 

 1,960,000. The societies included 144 societies for 

 the supply of requirements or sale of produce ; 147 

 small-holdings or allotments societies; 14 dairy 

 societies ; 1 5 egg and poultry societies ; 30 credit 

 societies ; 57 societies for the mutual insurance of 

 live-stock, and 16 societies of other kinds. 



" The Report of the Scottish Agricultural Organ- 

 isation Society for the year 1909 contains a list of 

 39 affiliated societies, of which 30 were agricultural 

 trading societies, 6 were dairy societies, and 3 were 



