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well-paid expert judges, who must not be interested in the 

 buying or selling of butter; each lot is then sold, according to 

 grade, by auction, after having been branded with a registered 

 trademark. Returns are made in a daily printed bulletin, so that 

 the makers will know the result promptly. No need to go into 

 detail here. The system is as old as the Cork butter market 

 and is also used by some of the German creamery associations. 



CO-OPERATION. 



I cannot, in this connection, refrain from urging an earnest 

 consideration of extended co-operation among the farmers. It 

 is my conviction that only in this way can the farmers save them- 

 selves from being fleeced both in selling their products and buy- 

 ing supplies and implements. 



We should aim to educate ourselves on that line and follow 

 the example of Denmark and Belgium, where co-operative stores,, 

 co-operative egg collecting and export, co-operative selling and 

 buying of seeds, fertilizers, fuel and whatnot, co-operative in- 

 surance and co-operative slaughterhouses obtain. 



