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Show Do Away With Middlemen. The English Co-Operative Wholesale Whole-sale society Is one of the largest manufacturing man-ufacturing enterprises In the world, has factories scattered all over England, Eng-land, in which almost every variety of useful article is made, nnd owns Its own farms, dairies and creameries. Most of the other wholesale societies carry on more or less manufacturing. The English societies have .$50,000,-000 .$50,000,-000 invested In homes built for their . members. The two great wholesale societies of England and Scotland, created by consumers' societies, began be-gan manufacturing and now produce $500,000,000 worth of commodities yearly. The largest tea warehouse In the United Kingdom Is that of the cooperatives, co-operatives, where 25,000,000 pounds of tea are yearly distributed from their own tea lands In Ceylon. London Mall. |