Mr. Horace Plunkett (M.P. for South Dublin county), who has
taken so active a part in organising the great dairy interest in Ireland, in helping the farmers to test the quality of their milk and butter, and to sell it to the best advantage, addressed a meeting in Dublin on Wednesday for the purpose of urging the extension of this agency to other agricultural products and operations. lie desires to form an association to be called "The Irish Agricultural Society, Limited," to register the Society under the "Industrial and ProvideLt Societies Act, 1893," and to devote the Society's operations to the object of pushing forward the propaganda of the true principles of commercial co-operation. It will engage in no business itself, and will not undertake any financial respon- sibility, or lend any financial assistance. It is intended as a society for teaching the Irish farmers and labourers how to organise themselves in co-operative efforts for the pro- duction of good food, or other raw material of which the quality can be adequately tested, and for the improvement and cheapening of the distributing agencies, as.experience has shown that what has already been done for dairy produce may easily be done for other products of Irish agriculture. All political partisanship is to be positively forbidden.
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