SUBJECTS WORTH ATTENTION 



Co-operation 



Many of the difficulties which affect small producers in 

 connection with railway charges for the carriage of 

 goods, the expenses attending sales, and the purchase of 

 materials, might be greatly reduced by well organised 

 systems of co-operation. In the general trade of the 

 country as regards provisions, clothing, etc., methods of 

 co-operation have proved highly successful, especially in 

 the North of England. The number of members con- 

 stituting these industrial societies now exceeds two 

 millions, while the funds amount to over forty-five 

 million pounds, and considerable profits have been 

 realised for distribution amongst the members. 



Amongst British farmers, fruit growers, and market 

 gardeners the progress made in the direction of such 

 combinations has been deplorably slow, though several 

 Continental nations (like Denmark, for instance) have 

 taken the fullest advantage of the benefits co-operation 

 confers. The Agricultural Organisation Society, Ltd., 

 Dacre House, DacreStreet, Victoria Street, London,S.W., 

 has been registered under the Industrial and Provident 

 Societies Acts as a non-trading society instituted for 

 the purpose of advocating the principles of co-operation 

 amongst all classes of land cultivators. Under its 

 auspices many local societies have been formed for 

 various purposes, and up to the end of 1 905, 125 such 

 bodies were registered and affiliated. Instructive leaflets 

 are issued gratuitously dealing with the methods 

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