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that he is much better qualified than the average 

 member would be to say where any particular lot of 

 animals should be sent, with the prospect of securing 

 the best results. Such is the extension which this 

 particular branch of the association's business has 

 undergone that the turnover in pigs alone now exceeds 

 3,000 a month. 



In these various ways not only has much already 

 been done in the short time the association has been 

 in existence, but almost every day opens out to the 

 managers the possibility of new developments ; and 

 within the next few years the Eastern Counties Farmers' 

 Co-operative Association should assume proportions 

 of very considerable magnitude indeed. Meanwhile, it 

 constitutes a valuable object-lesson for 'large' farmers 

 in general. One theory I have seen propounded in 

 regard to the migration of labourers from the country 

 to the towns is that, owing to the present low prices, 

 the farmers are unable to pay higher wages. If, it is 

 said, the farmers could afford to give a higher wage, the 

 labourers would stop. Should this be really the case, 

 then all that the farmers require to do in order to solve 

 the problem is to form themselves into co-operative 

 associations on the lines of the one in the Eastern 

 Counties. 



Concerning another important society affiliated with 

 the Agricultural Organization Society I shall speak in 

 the chapter that follows. 



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