INFORMATION RELATING TO CO-OPERATlON AND ASSOClATlOiN 



in April 1916, its first month of activity, fourteen members furnished 

 14,270 litres of milk and in December forty-three members contributed 

 altogether 44,378 litres. The same rise is found in the sales, for all the avai- 

 lable products were sold. One of the difficulties to be surmounted is how- 

 ever that of selling in the suiiimer months in which sales diminish conside- 

 rably. Hitherto the remedy has been found in making salt butter which has 

 all been sold in the following months. The managing council is studying 

 the question of sterilizing the milk, the dairy being able to dispose of all 

 the necessary machines for this process. 



Hitherto the dairy has paid members for the milk they supply from 

 28 to 30 centimes a litre, according to whether or not the membership fee 

 and the cost of insuring the stock is deducted. The dairy's selling price to 

 consumers is 40 centimes a litre for pasteurized milk delivered at their houses 

 and 35 centimes for that fetched from the dairy. The members of the Casa 

 de Ganaderos receive a bonus of 10 and 5 per cent, on these respective prices. 



In the year we are examining the dairy's receipts for the sale of the milk 

 and derivative products amounted to 82,804.58 pesetas (i) and its expenses 

 to 80,674.62 pesetas. There was thus a credit balance of 2,129.96 pesetas 

 which was distributed among the supplyiug members in proportion to the 

 total quantity of milk each of them had contributed. 



In conclusion we give some data as to the detailed distribution of the 

 dairy's receipts, month by month. 



(t) I peseta = 8d. at par. 



