ABSTRACT
Distributive working-class co-operation is in essence a social principle resting on the adoption of certain industrial practices. Co-operative agriculture, at the present time, is in essence an aid to economic efficiency, accompanied by those moral benefits that always tend to follow on the adoption of associated effort. Distributive co-operation has to find its chief justification in its effects on life and character; agricultural co-operation, perhaps, in its effects on the stability and expansion of the premier industry of the country. Co-operative agriculture is thus regarded by many as being in essence a mode of business, and it is undeniable that as good business it will have to command the suffrages of practical men and women. In 630 Co-operative Societies, some 64,000 farmers and other workers of the homestead are carrying on various kinds of production and trade connected with their industry.
