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profitable for guidance in the construction of a union, whether for 

 the purchase of fanners' requisites or for collecting and marketing 

 the products of farm, field, and dairy. The tendency to greater 

 co-operation is well set, even large farmers confessing its utility, 

 and the tendency nnist strengthen with time. Of all origins of a 

 co-operative society the most natural and the best is the local 

 origin — the unpretentious coming together of the few who are 

 persuaded of the suitability of united action to the local conditions. 

 But as an easily accessible source of information, and as an agency 

 for helping the desires of beginners to take shape, an Agricultural 

 Organisation Society would, it appears to the Commission, have a 

 useful place in Scotland. 



