CHAPTER II. 

 EXAMPLES FROM OTHER LANDS. 



To give a full account of the progress made by the move- 

 ment throughout the world would far exceed the limits of 

 available space ; and this fact will be the more evident if 

 it is mentioned that no fewer than fifty States have now given 

 in their adhesion to the International Institute of Agriculture 

 established at Rome in 1905, and that the historical and 

 statistical data published by the Institute's Bureau of 

 Economic and Social Intelligence — data, that is, relating 

 mostly to developments of agricultural organisation in one 

 form or another in these different countries — already fill 

 no fewer than eighteen Bulletins, each consisting of about 

 250 pages. 



All that can here be attempted is to offer, mainly from 

 these Bulletins, a few details concerning certain typical 

 countries with a view less of satisfying the statistician than 

 of convincing the reader that, where so much activity is 

 being shown in lands which are often competitors of our 

 own, it is not for England to lag behind in the march of 

 economic development. 



Germany. 



The great expansion of the agricultural organisation 

 movement in Germany is well shown by the following table, 

 which gives the total number of agricultural co-operative 

 societies existing in the German Empire in the years 

 stated : — 



