Sir Horace Plunkett in his recent articles has drawn attention
to the work of the Foundation named after him. Its Year Book of Agricultural Co-operation, 1931 (Routledge, 10s. 6d.), a substantial volume of six hundred pages, shows how steadily the- movement is growing in all countries except Russia and indicates in a series of reports the benefits that farmers derive from combined marketing of produce and buying of fertilisers and the like. The past year was difficult at home and abroad. Australia's troubles are noted, and attributed in part to an excess of State control as opposed to the voluntary co-operation which worked well in Western Australia. The much debated Canadian Wheat Pool has a chapter to itself. A strange series of misprints in the English chapter suggests that the wholesale price of milk here is fourteen shillings a gallon, instead of fourteen pence. Dairy farmers would indeed be in clover if the text were accurate.
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