4o8 THE FUTURE OF OUR AGRICULTURE. 



Plunkett took up the lead of the rural co-operative move- 

 ment, which aims at far more Co-operation than that merely 

 of the Store and the Market, and in England, where a " Rural 

 Co-operative Society " has taken up the pioneer's work. 



The means to be adopted for such transformation present 

 no serious difficulties. The work might easily be accom- 

 plished. The result bids fair to prove exceedingly beneficial, 

 lifting our national Agriculture at length, after a long 

 delay, out of the barren rut of unprofitable routine, and 

 breathing new life into what after all is a supremely impor- 

 tant national caUing. 



