120 AGRICULTURAL ORGANISATION 



The Agricultural Department of the University College of 

 North Wales, Bangor, organised a series of " extension 

 lectures " on " Agricultural Co-operation," the outcome of 

 which was the formation of two new societies. 



The Council of the University College, Reading, took part 

 in the holding, in that town, on March 21st, 1903, of a confer- 

 ence attended by Mr. Hanbury, Sir Horace Plunkett, Mr. 

 Yerburgh, and others, at which a resolution affirming the 

 desirability, in the interests of agriculture, of encouraging 

 " the study and adoption throughout Great Britain of those 

 principles of agricultural co-operation which have been for 

 many years so successfully established in foreign countries, 

 and more recently in Ireland and several parts of England 

 and Wales." 



The present Director for Agriculture of the Reading 

 College, Mr. R. Hart-Synnot, is most sympathetic and 

 recently issued a circular letter to the principal newspapers 

 in the counties of Hants, Dorset, Wilts, Berks and Oxon in 

 support of agricultural co-operation. 



Co-operative Union. 



To the Co-operative Union and its late secretary, Mr. J. C. 

 Gray, the Committee expressed themselves, as early as 1902, 

 " much indebted and very grateful for the advice and guid- 

 ance given in matters of great importance" to the movement. 

 These acknowledgments were renewed in 1903. At the 

 1904 Congress of the Co-operative Union the following 

 resolution was passed : — 



That this conference notes with satisfaction the growth of 

 co-operation amongst agriculturists, as evidenced by the numerous 

 co-operative societies established during recent years for the 

 purpose of supplying farmers and others with the machinery, 

 implements, manures, seeds, etc., required in their business, and 

 also for distributing their produce on a co-operative system. 

 Believing it desirable that a closer connection should be main- 

 tained between all branches of the co-operative movement in 

 this country, the Congress pledges itself to assist in the develop- 

 ment of co-operation in this direction by encouraging the Agri- 

 cultural Organisation Society in its work, and by using its 

 influence towards the establishment of mutual trading relations 



