Country Life
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Many people spend large suns on farming, but few endow it. In this small body of benefactors is Sir Horace Plunkett, who most generously established the Plunkett Foundation (at 10 Doughty Street) for the purpose of forwarding the ideal of co-operation. It has never published a more useful volume than its latest, Agricultural Co-operation in Ireland, for Ireland is the very headquarters of the movement, and, thanks to it, comes second on the list of importers of farm pa duce into England. Sir Horace himself, whose beneficent energy is unaffected by years or health, makes a definite suggestion. " The most promising help to the nation would be the settlement outside the wheat-growing area, not of isolated small holders, but of groups of them carefully selected with a view to their achieving economic independence as rapidly as possible." The land hunger, even to-day in the deepest trough of depression, is very evident ; and there never was, and never again will be, so much land available at a low price.
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