304 THE WESTERN SEABOARD 



The co-operative movement is the true complement of 

 the Department, both as preparing its way and after- 

 wards realizing its educational activities ; above all, as 

 giving to the people the suggestion of initiative and 

 dependence upon personal effort the moral force 

 without which education is wasted. One hears of 

 friction between the two organizations, but every true 

 friend of agriculture, every well-wisher to Ireland, 

 realizes that each is necessary and neither can do the 

 work of the other, and so trusts to see the work of 

 both continually expanding on parallel lines long after 

 the present unhappy legacy of old feuds has been 

 forgotten in Ireland. 



