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instead of giving a detailed analysis of the cakes they sell, 

 simply to make some such statement as the following : 

 " Contains a minimum of 64 per cent, of oil, and fat and flesh 

 formers." Such a statement would apply equally to a cake 

 made of weed seeds, screenings, and other rubbish, or of the 

 best linseed. Societies should always, and very often do, 

 insist on a proper guarantee of the percentage of oil and 

 albuminoids, and of the freedom of the cake from any deleterious 

 ingredients. There are also many compounded feeding-stuffs 

 sold at prices far above their true value as calculated by the food 

 units they contain. 



Co-operation for sale has not progressed to the same extent 

 as co-operation for purchase, but a number of societies exist 

 which have been very successful in dealing with the sale of 

 dairy produce, eggs, poultry, and other produce. An account 

 of the work of some of the co-operative dairying societies was 

 given in the previous number of this Journal (July, 1905). 



Some particulars of another side of the societies' work, viz., 

 the promotion of agricultural credit banks, have also been 

 given recently in this Journal (June, 1905, p. 154), but among 

 the proposed developments is the establishment of a Central 

 Finance Society, from which credit societies can draw money 

 to lend to their members, and in which any surplus money 

 they may have in hand may be deposited. It is also hoped 

 that means will be found to establish a co-operative credit 

 system which will meet the requirements of the larger farmers. 



The Report contains the returns received from the societies 

 showing the number of members, share capital, sales, profit 

 and loss, &c, together with other information relating to the 

 working of the Agricultural Organisation Society in the past 

 year. 



