There are about 300 agricultural credit societies with a membership of 15,000 and a capital of more than $200,000.

In a word, in Ireland, which we have been apt to consider as far behind us in all that relates to agriculture, there are nearly 1,000 agricultural societies with a total membership of 100,000 persons.

Since 1894 their total business has been more than $300,000,000.
But, after the farmer has begun to make use of his right to combine for his advantage in selling his products and buying his supplies, is there nothing else he can do?
As well might we say that, after the body and the mind of a boy have been trained, he should be deprived of all those associations with his fellows which make life worth living, and to which every child has an inborn right.

Life is something more than a matter of business.

No man can make his life what it ought to be by living it merely on a business basis.