3 MARCH 1923, Page 2

The Committee also recommends the formation of co-operative credit societies.

But as everyone knows, it is one thing to recommend any form of co-operation in British agriculture and quite another, to get it carried out. It is often said that the true reason why the co-operative movement in agriculture has never spread in this country in the sort of way it. has done in Denmark is because the Farmers' Union is controlled by men who are very deeply committed to the interests of the middlemen. We wonder if this is so.