ABSTRACT
The object of the Society is comprehensively stated in the following terms: - 'To secure the co-operation of all connected with land, whether as owners, occupiers or labourers, and to promote the formation of agricultural co-operative societies for the purchase of requisites, for the sale of produce, for agricultural credit, banking and insurance, and for all other forms of co-operation for the benefit of agriculture'. The salient features of the scheme of operations are to form 'branches' whenever the requisite local cooperation can be obtained, and, in suitable districts, 'collecting depots'. The depots are formed for the collection of both eggs and poultry, but, in the great majority of cases they handle the former product only. The eggs are collected, tested, graded, and those that are 'strictly fresh', having been branded with the trade mark of the society, are packed and forwarded as rapidly as possible to traders whose names are on the register kept by the central organization.
