ABSTRACT
Markets are continually subject to "rigging," prices are driven down by unscrupulous speculators, and even in small markets advantage is taken by smart buyers to make purchases at prices far below the real value of the article. By establishing depots for the direct sale of agricultural produce and by selling also on commission, through salesmen of its own stationed in London and in the principal provincial markets. The Irish Agricultural Wholesale Society is a kindred body formed for the purpose of doing for agricultural societies in Ireland what the Co-operative Agency has done for the creameries. To a great extent the business transactions of this union consist in the purchase of farm requirements and their sale to co-operators, but a great deal has been done in the direction of the sale of produce. Emboldened by the success of the associations, the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society have boldly undertaken to promote the formation of bee-keepers' societies on co-operative principles.
