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each individual grower if he gives up isolated 

 action and, together with others, joins a registered 

 co-operative society. He will gain by buying 

 requisites and seeds which have been tested by 

 the society's agent, the cost of which is reduced 

 for him as a unit, because a large order was given 

 in bulk for all the members' requirements. 



Similarly, machinery for the farm and garden, 

 so especially necessary now, whilst there is a 

 shortage of men, can be purchased by the society 

 for the joint use of members. A motor lorry for 

 conveying produce from farms and gardens direct 

 to the market or individual consumer is within 

 reach of a community, whereas the isolated grower 

 could never hope to use one. 



It is by means of such advantages that the 

 Danish farmer sends his small lot of eggs and butter 

 to England, which it would not pay him to do if 

 he dispatched his produce as a single consignment. 

 To bulk all members' produce for dispatch is, 

 therefore, the only way to success, because as a 

 rule the clever grower is much too busy to be a 

 clever salesman, and so he will welcome relief 

 from this anxiety, if it is all done for him by the 

 society's agent. He knows, too, that on the 

 market a large consignment will usually stand a 

 better chance than a number of small quantities 

 from independent growers. Then, again, in that 

 all-important question of enriching land, particu- 

 larly if we aim at intensive cultivation, it is far 

 easier to buy manures in bulk than for each indi- 

 vidual to pay heavily on the transit and cost of 

 a small quantity, and proper Government organisa- 



