CHAPTER VII 



AGRICULTURAL ORGANISATION 



IF the interests of the agricultural industry 

 are ever to be successfully consolidated, 

 Agricultural Societies and Unions, in 

 short associations of all descriptions, must 

 play a much more important part than they have 

 in the past. In other words, agricultural organi- 

 sations must be supported far more strongly 

 than now by agriculturists. Every farmer should 

 belong to some effective society or other ; at 

 present it is only a small percentage of farmers 

 who belong to any society. 



I will give a short resume of the history of 

 agricultural organisation and of the older 

 societies before considering the newer ones, and 

 the tendencies at work which have called them 

 into existence. 



The leading societies of the older type are — 

 The Royal Agricultural Society, The Central 

 and Affiliated Chambers of Agriculture, Lord 

 Winchilsea's Agricultural Union, and the 

 Agricultural Organisation Society ; this last, 

 though not itself an old society, is the outcome 



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