Co-operative Farming.

AMONG the many directions to which co-operative principle is being applied, may be mentioned the experiment made in Burma of co-operative farming. It is described as an attempt to combine the communal system of cultivation with co-operation and the present experience shows that the scheme may be successful. In the Hanthawaddy district a large area of about 23,000 acres is based to co-operative societies formed of groups of cultivators who agree to settle down on the land and colonise the district. Capital is lent by the Government to the societies which distribute the amount among individual members. This is recovered in small installments and it is said there are already 13 settlements on the land. In thinly populated districts co-operative farming of this kind may indeed be successful. Much depends on the nature of the soil and facilities for cultivation.