Yet the system has failed because the farmers seemed unable
just to make this combined effort to send their goods from one
point instead of from many. Yet we hear a vast amount
of complaint that the producer cannot get his produce to the
consumer in consequence of railway difficulties. We often
read disheartening letters in the newspapers, written by
despairing small cultivators, stating that all the possible profits
on a consignment of perishable commodities are lost through
delay in transit ; and yet, when the opportunity was given
of not losing them, the want of co-operation amongst the
farmers wrecked the possibility of helping them. It was not
the custom of proceeding in olden times, hence the difficulty
of the modern farmer to grasp the improvement. Moreover,
he despises technical education. It is with the utmost
difficulty that classes are got together to teach those who
would profit by it most. We read of many country villages
where no classes can be held in consequence of utter
indifference.
