Stores are starting up in various parts of the country.

The Grangers claim to have now hundreds of co-operative stores, upon the Rochdale plan, in successful operation.

Texas reports officially (1881) seventy-five co-operative societies connected with this order.

* * * We had an epoch of brilliant enthusiasm over co-operative agriculture in 1840-50, but little has been left from it.
One form of agricultural co-operation, a lower form, has been astonishingly successful--the cheese-factories and creameries.

It is estimated that there are now 5,000 of them in the country.