THE STATE AS FARMER 103 



Societies for the supply of Requirements and 



sale of Produce ..... 227 



Dairy, Bottled Milk, and Cheese-making Societies 34 



Small Holdings and Allotments Societies . 195 

 Agricultural Credit Societies . . . .58 



Egg and Poultry Societies .... 24 



Miscellaneous Societies ..... 29 



Insurance Societies ..... 3 



570 



The list does less than justice to the 

 movement, because it often happens that a 

 society commences to work for one particular 

 purpose, but as time goes on it adds to its 

 activities several other objects. It is, how- 

 ever, still enrolled under its original designa- 

 tion, rather unfortunately, I venture to think, 

 for it hides to some extent the total volume 

 of business. 



I think that it is generally recognised that 

 a mere fringe of the farming industry is yet 

 touched. It is not very difficult to appreciate 

 the difference which must exist in time, if 

 in nothing else, between a country gradually 

 coaxed into co-operative methods — here a 

 bit of milk collection, here a few eggs ; there 

 a credit society, and somewhere else insurance 



