CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT DURING THE WAR I5 



In 1914 and 1915 these miscellaneous undertakings were as follows : 

 Table III. — Various Co-operative Actixiity in 1914 and 1915. 



Number 

 of 

 Operations Societies 



Supply of agricultural machines. . 2,472 



Sup])ly of live stock 53 



Seeds 756 



Forage 350 



Letting lands 94 



The credit granted by the State to institutions of small credit amounted 

 on I January 1917 to 397 millions roubles, of which 358 million roubles 

 had been granted to co-operative institutions of credit. 



The number of members on i July 1916 was 10,378,913 ; namely 

 2,324,988 members of credit and relief societies and 8,053,925 members of 

 co-operative credit institutions. The increase in 1914 was of 1,200,000 ; 

 in 1915 it was only of 100,000. 



The capital of which the institutions of small credit could dispose was 

 distributed as follows. 



Table IV. Percentage of Capital at the Disposal of the Institutions of Small 

 Credit of various Categories. 



Co-operative * 

 Credit and Relief Co-operative Societies of the 

 Kinds of Capital. Societies. Credit Societies. two Forms. 



Capital belonging to the 



Societies 22.8 13.7 17.9 



Capital of the State . . 6.0 13.2 9.6 



Capital of the Zemstvos 1.6 4.6 3.3 



Deposited capital . . , 67.2 65.4 66.3 



Other capital 2.4 3.4 2.9 



Total . . . 361.280.000 554.314.000 915.544.000 roubles 



§ 3. Co-operative Consumption, 



The total number of co-operative institutions for consumption reached 

 18,000 on I January 1917 while before the war it was barely 10,000, the in- 

 crease being thus one of nearly 100 per cent. In European Russia the in- 

 crease was of 98 per cent., in Siberia of 99 per cent., in the Caucasus of 164 

 per cent., and in the Transcaspian provinces of 171 per cent. In certain pro- 

 vinces the percentage of increase was very high : in the province of Nijni- 

 Novgorod it was 709 ; in the province of Charkov 447. 



