10 RUSSIA - CO-OPERATIOX AKD ASSOCIATIOX 



ment with the Union stock company of lyondon which was founded to trade 

 in eggs. ' 



In accordance with this agreernent work is planned to be executed in 

 common as follows : 



i) The Union is the sole representative of the Popular Bank of 

 Moscow on foreign egg markets. The Union was formed with the support 

 of the Union of Siberian Dairies and trades in butter, poultry- and eggs. It 

 has already a large body of customers read}- to buy Russian eggs. It con- 

 ducts all its trade on commission exclusiveh^ The representative of the 

 Popular Bank of Moscow has the right to control its activity-. 



2) The Popular Bank of ^Moscow is the sole representative of the 

 Union in Russia where the trade in eggs is Concerned. 



3) The Popular Bank supplies credit to co-operative societies and 

 grants advances on merchandise sent abroad. 



4) The Popular Bank is a centre for all the enterprise as to the foreign 

 trade. 



5) The bank is only the commission agent of the cooperative socie- 

 ties, who thus support the total risks of transactions. 



At the same time there has been some initiative in the direction of 

 forming co-operative unions for trading in eggs. 



The first organization of this kind was formed in the province of Pensa 

 in which three co-operative societies united, the first of them having 54 

 members of whom 45 were purchasers, while the two others were made up 

 of peasants busy over the development of poultr^^ farming. The first so- 

 ciety was to be a centre for the work to be accomplished and its installa- 

 tion was fitted to this purpose. Each society' also had an establishment for 

 the sorting and packing of the eggs and was responsible for their quality. 



The peasants' co-operative societies were to collect eggs from their 

 members and classify them. When they had received a sufficient number 

 to form a waggon-load this was to be sent immediately by the Union of 

 Siberian Dairies to be sold on the market by a wholesale merchant, who was 

 obliged periodicalh^ to supply the bulletin of the market prices of the various 

 kinds of eggs. 



On eggs collected outside the co-operative society' 90 per cent, of the 

 market price was advanced, but as much as 100 per cent, was advanced on 

 members' eggs. 



In fact the endeavour was to form an organization coimecting buyers 

 and producers, who should do business on an equality. 



But this enterprise did not develop largelj' and did not meet with all 

 the success expected for it. 



A second enterprise was set on foot in the district of Eletjk in the pro- 

 vince of Orel where an organization of the Danish type was formed, the union 

 of the artels for selling eggs. 



The scheme remained almost a dead letter. The Russian woman was 

 stil 1 too much of a stranger to this form of co-operation ; the society* had few 

 members and could not struggle with the large dealers who disposed of 

 capital. 



