able to save for the
company in one transaction, an amount in money more than equal to their
entire wages for the year.

"In another way their services would prove equally advantageous. With
such an increase of leisure, there would come to these retired
co-operators, a desire, and the opportunity, to enter more actively into
the practical work of the scientific clubs. If inclined, they could take
up all kinds of scientific research; making themselves especially useful
in the practical, productive and profitable work of the educational,
microscopical, chemical and photographic clubs. Those who had a talent
for invention, could then devote as much time, energy and thought to it,
as they chose. To aid them, they would have the advantage of an acquired
skill in the use of tools, and of all kinds of complicated machinery,
which would be a part of the outfit belonging to the thoroughly equipped
machine shop at their disposal. In the laboratory, they could find the
books, maps, and drawings, necessary to bring them up to date in any
line of invention which they might choose to enter.

"Taking these important factors into consideration, we discover that
our co-operative inventor, would be armed to conquer his subject by a
magnificent equipment, such as an ordinary inventor could not hope to
command.

"So ably reinforced by the advantages enumerated, our corps of
inventors, of both sexes, would be inspired by a labor of love. Unbiased
by any selfish motives, they would be working for the farm and for
humanity. With no cause to distrust their fellows, they could openly
discuss their discoveries, without fear of having them stolen;
consequently, they could have the willing assistance of all the
inventive minds in the colony, in developing and perfecting their
original inventions. This would be an experience utterly unheard of, in
the annals of an industry based on the competitive system. It would be
the beginning of co-operative invention as an art. It would mark another
great step in harmonious, practical and profitable co-operative
thinking, that would lead to discoveries of vast importance to the
world; discoveries that could not be made in any other way. It is
difficult for even the most enthusiastic optimist to imagine, what a
revolution in the inventive world, will follow the introduction of such
superior co-operative methods; or what wonders will be wrought by them,
before the close of the first half of the twentieth cen