62 ADVERSE CRITICISM 



same time efficiently provide all the advantages 

 of expert advice, buying and selling, and rural 

 credit which co-operation supplies on the Con- 

 tinent, but adapted to the British tempera- 

 ment. 



The peasant farmer in this country has been 

 subjected to much adverse criticism. Publicity 

 has unfortunately been given to failure in prefer- 

 ence to success, as the example quoted in the 

 next chapter will serve to illustrate. But after 

 thirty years of experience the creation of the 

 small owner, which is of such vast importance 

 to our national welfare, is a problem which in 

 the near future will be found very much easier 

 of solution. 



