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growing rapidly. The Lugton and Dunlop Associations, 

 formed under the Society's guidance, have substantially 

 improved the price of milk in their respective districts; and 

 their first year's operations show highly satisfactory profits 

 after the cost of working and interest on capital have been 

 met. Similar depots have been completed at Rowallan, 

 Fyvie, and Laurencekirk, and their progress is such as to 

 offer every prospect of successful development. Associations 

 for co-operative dairying have also been formed at Kilmaurs 

 and Kilmalcolm. 



The organisation of the poultry industry continues to make 

 progress, both in the formation of new societies and in exten- 

 sion of the work of those already existing. The Executive- 

 Committee have co-operated with the Highland and Agricul- 

 tural Society in the expenditure of that Society's grant of 

 ,£,'50 towards the improvement of poultry in the Highlands,, 

 and they report that this expenditure promises to yield 

 excellent results, and that the improvement of marketing 

 organisation and the improvement of poultry breeding are 

 processes mutually helpful to one another. Very substantial 

 increases in the price of eggs have resulted from the Society's 

 work in Orkney, in Lochaber, and in other districts. 



Apart from these two special industries, the Report of the- 

 Society for 1909 states that the district Societies have been* 

 enabled to assist their members to obtain very substantial:' 

 advantages, either in the price and quality of seeds, manures,, 

 feeding stuffs, implements, and other requisites, purchased 

 or in the sale of produce. In almost every instance where 

 district Societies have taken to buying collectively the agri- 

 cultural seeds, manures, feeding stuffs, implements, &c, 

 required by their members, an immediate effect has been not 

 only a direct advantage to the members, but a considerable 

 lowering of the prices quoted for these commodities by local 

 traders and merchants ; and on the other hand, wherever the 

 produce, such as milk, or its manufactured products, eggs, 

 and certain products of the fishing industry, such as crabs, 

 lobsters, &c, have been collectively put on the market, higher 

 prices have been obtained, with the effect of stimulating local 

 traders also to offer increased prices for such produce. It is 

 remarked, however, that there are too many farmers who are 



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