We cannot
foretell the developments in each branch, but we can see clearly that
the organized community can lay hold of discoveries and inventions which
the individual farmer cannot. It is little for the co-operative society
to buy expensive threshing sets and let its members have the use of
them, but the individual farmer would have to save a long time before he
could raise several hundred pounds. The society is a better buyer than
the individual. It can buy things the individual cannot buy. It is a
better producer also. The plant for a creamery is beyond the individual
farmer; but our organized farmers in Ireland, small though they are,
find it no trouble to erect and equip a creamery with plant costing two
thousand pounds. The organized rural community of the future will
generate its own electricity at its central buildings, and run not only
its factories and other enterprises by this power, but will supply light
to the houses of its members and also mechanical power to run machinery
on the farm. One of our Irish societies already supplies electric light
for the town it works in.
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