i88 BRANDSBY SHOWS THE WAY 



our most valuable foodstuffs. And when the motor has built up, 

 as it must build up in time, an interesting trade and expanded 

 production, whereby many of those now derelict in the towns may 

 be drawn back to industry and a wholesome life, its potentialities 

 as an agent of economic and social progress will be in some 

 measure realized. 



A new department of the growing business of the 

 Brandsby Association was added in April, 1905, when 

 an old water-mill was rented for the grinding of corn 

 for farm use. A considerable trade is done in household 

 flour ; large farmers, small farmers, and farm-labourers 

 can alike purchase their coal at the society's depot at 

 lower rates than they ever paid before ; in fact, almost 

 everything a farmer requires, down to the beer for 

 his harvesters, can be obtained from the new and 

 commodious stores built at Brandsby in 1905, alongside 

 the depot already constructed for the accommodation 

 of the motor-waggons and as a warehouse for the 

 bulkier goods. The growth in the trade done in the 

 agricultural department is sufficiently indicated by the 

 following figures : 



TRADE OF AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



s. d. 



October, 1904 ... 69 i n 

 November, 1904 ... 157 12 7 



* d. 



October, 1905 ... 228 9 5 

 November, 1905 ... 245 i 5 



So the long years of struggle at Brandsby to place 

 agricultural conditions there on a better footing, and 

 especially to secure due acceptance for the principles of 

 effective combination, have led to a degree of success 

 on which Mr. Fairfax-Cholmeley, and those who have 

 aided him in carrying on that struggle, may be warmly 

 congratulated. The scheme, in its various phases, was 

 well thought out from the first ; it has been developed 

 with much tact along essentially practical lines ; and 

 now that Brandsby has shown the way, other rural 

 districts, similarly situated, should have no hesitation 

 in following so excellent a lead. 



