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societies of other kinds. The statistics of member- 

 ship and turnover are not quite complete, but of the 

 societies furnishing returns the total number of mem- 

 bers was 2,332 and the aggregate turnover was 

 ,102,934." 



As will be seen when we come to consider the 

 Danish figures, those for Great Britain, given above 

 are by comparison practically negligible. 



Various reasons for this unhappy state of affairs 

 are suggested in the Bulletin. Thus, with reference to 

 the sale of produce in Great Britain, it says : " The 

 markets are close at hand, and there is usually a 

 considerable choice, not only of markets to which 

 to send produce, but of methods of despatching it. 

 These facts make it very difficult to induce the farmers 

 to take concerted action." 



Again, with reference to co-operative dairying, it 

 remarks that the " English dairy-farmer is generally 

 able to find an outlet for whole milk, and butter- 

 making is not the most remunerative way of dealing 

 with milk," which it seems to think accounts for the 

 absence of co-operative creameries. As to the reason 

 of the lack of agricultural credit facilities the Bulletin 

 has no suggestions to offer. 



That there is force in the explanations given above 

 no one will deny. They are true, but by no means 

 the whole truth. Thus among the causes not men- 

 tioned in the Bulletin is undoubtedly that so shrewdly 

 stated by Mr. Schou (see p. 61), who, it may be 

 remembered, declared as his deliberate opinion that 

 tenant-farmers will not co-operate because, co-operative 

 accounts being open to inspection, they fear that their 

 landlords might raise the rents if it were found that 



