28 Co-operation in Purchase of Manures. 



constitution and methods, but the Perthshire Agricultural 

 Society, the Derwent and District Farmers' Club, and the 

 Central Cornwall Farmers' Association may be taken as types. 



The Perthshire Agricultural Society, which has a membership 

 of about 500, exists, like most county societies, principally for 

 the promotion of a show, but it has adopted a simple and 

 efficacious method of protecting its members against fraud or 

 overcharges in the purchase of manures and feeding stuffs. 

 Under the arrangements made by the Perthshire County 

 Council for administering the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs 

 Act, purchasers of manures or cattle food can have samples 

 analysed by the agricultural analyst for the county on 

 payment of 5s., the remainder of the analyst's fee being 

 paid by the county. The Perthshire Agricultural Society has 

 arranged that any member may submit samples to the agri- 

 cultural analyst without payment, the 5s. fee for such samples 

 being charged by the analyst to the society. At the close of 

 the season particulars of the analyses made for members are 

 printed and distributed to members. An extract from one of 

 the tables issued by the society is given on pp. 34-5. From 

 this extract columns giving the date of the invoice, the quantity 

 bought, and the names and addresses of the buyers and sellers, 

 which appear in the original, have been omitted. 



The Warwickshire Farmers' Association issues a monthly 

 journal, in which the results of analyses made for members are 

 notified. The information furnished in this way has the advantage 

 of being more up to date than that afforded by an annual 

 publication. 



The County Councils of most counties have made very liberal 

 arrangements for the analysis of samples under the Fertilisers 

 and Feeding Stuffs Act. In a large number of districts the fee 

 payable by the purchaser for an analysis by the agricultural 

 analyst is even lower than in Perthshire, and in many counties 

 an official of the Council will attend on request and carry out 

 the formalities required by law in taking a sample under the Act. 



The system of the Perthshire Agricultural Society might there- 

 fore be followed by agricultural societies in many districts with 

 a minimum of trouble and expense. 



The Derwent District Agricultural Club affords a good 



