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INFORMATION RELATING TO CO-OPER.\TION AND ASSOCIATION 



The geographical distribution of these co-operative societies is as 

 follows : 



Emilia i860 



Lombardy 1484 



Tiiscany 851 



Venetia 731 



Piedmont 650 



Latium 520 



Sicily 432 



Liguria 407 



Apulia 327 



Campania 298 



Marches 266 



Umbria 131 



Calabria * 118 



Abruzzi 79 



Sardinia 57 



Basilicata 37 



Tripoli 2 



Erythrea i 



The co-operative societies of agriculture and oenology numbered 1242 

 OB 30 June 1914, which number had risen, as has been seen, to 1371 on 31 

 Decembr 1915. In these eighteen months there was therefore an increase 

 of 129 societies. 



3. THE POSITION OF I,OCAI, FEDERATIONS OF CATHOI^IC RURAI, FUNDS ON 31 

 DECEMBER 191 5. — Cooperazione Popolare, the organ of the Catholic rural funds and 

 co-operative and mutual societies, Nos. 7 and 8, Parma, 8 April 1917. 



In our issue for November 1916 (page 40) we announced that general 

 statistics of Catholic rural funds were being drawn up by the Italian Fede- 

 ration of Catholic Rural Funds of Bologna. We borrow from the data al- 

 ready- collected by this federation the following table, which resumes the 

 position of local federations of Catholic rural funds adhering to the fede- 

 ration on 31 December 1915 : 



