INFORMATION RELATING TO CO-OPERATION AND ASSOCIATION 1 7 



to the co-operative societies legally constituted on 31 December 1915, exclud- 

 ing those of which the chief aim is to afford credit. On the date named 

 there were 8,251 societies in Italy as against 7,429 on 30 June 1914. They 

 were distributed in categories as follows : 



I. Co-operative consumption 2,312 



II. Co-operative insurance 162 



III. Co-operative agricnlture and oenology 



i) Special agricultural industries and cultures . . 1,058 



2) Mticulture and oenology 132 



3) Silkworm breeding, sericulture, apiculture and 

 derivatives 12 



4) Dairies and cheesemaking 169 



IV. Co-operative food-producing industries 



i) Bakeries, mills, paste factories 89 



2) Butcheries and various food-producing industries 50 



VI. Co-operative industrial production : 



1) Clothing, textile and derivative industries. . . no 



2) Wood and leatherwork 155 



3) Mechanical and metallurgical industries .... 177 



4) Chemical and pharmaceutical industries. ... 56 



5) Decorative arts and ornamental products . . 117 



6) Electrical work 82 



7) Polygraphic and derivativ^e industries .... 124 



8) Works for objects of hj-giene 38 



o) Building, ceramic and glassblowing industries . 40 



10) Various industries iq 



i>37i 



139 



V. Co-operative fisheries 122 



4,106 



918 



VII. Co-operative building 704 



VIII. Co-operative labour : 



1) ^Masons, stonecutters, cementers 939 



2) Journeymen, navvies, quarrymen 734 



3) Drivers, carters 201 



4) Dockworkers, porters 211 



5) Mixed 00 



2,175 



7A', Various co-operation 34S 



Total . . 8.251 



