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. The agricultural mutual societies are distributed as follows : 



Mutual societies insuring live stock 1,085 



against fire 255 



against accidents ... 4 



" " " (various) ■^, 



Total . . . 1,347 



The greatest number of agricultural mutual societies are found in the 

 provinces of IVIilan (200), Como (165), Turin (156), Udine (96), Novara (77) 

 and Cuneo (67). The mutual live stock societies are scattered over almost 

 all the provinces, and found especiall}* in those of IVIilan (199), Como (164), 

 Udine (93) and Novara (64). The mutual fire insurance societies are, on 

 the other hand, numerous in Piedmont, the province of Turin alone having 

 119 of them and Alexandria 61. 



Altogether the catalogue we have mentioned shows that from the end 

 of 1913 until the end of 1916 the number of agricultural co-operative socie- 

 ties in Italy increased by 1,117 and that of agricultural mutual societies 

 by 278. 



RUSSIA. 



THE CO-OPERATRTE SAI,E OF TOBACCO. 



SOURCES : 



I<uTZKEViTCH : XpemaxuHCKoe TOBapirmeCTBO. {The Co-operative Credit Society of 

 Chrestchatinskoe) , in " BtCTHiiivi, Me.TiKaro KpeAHxa " {The Messenger of Small 

 Credit), No 50. Petrograd, igi2. 



lyiBERMAN : Ta6aK0B0;i;Bi h KOOnepaTiiBHbiH j'qpe*y«ACHi}i {Tobacco Growers and Co-ope- 

 ration), in " BtcTiiiiK'b MejiKaro Kpe/i,UTa " n°, 7 Petrograd 1913. 



ly. ; XlepBaa Ta6aiHasK00nepaTnBHaH (j()a6pjiKa {The First Co-operative Tobacco Factory) 

 in " B'fecTHnK'B MeJiKaro Kpe;a;uTa " No. 14, Petrograd 1913. 



P. G. : K-B Bonpocy o c6biTii Ta6aKa B-b HepnuroBCKBii rySepnlH {On the Question 

 of the Sale of Tobacco in the Province of T Chernigov) , in "B'fecTHllK'b MeJlKaro KpejlKTSi" 

 No. 19 Petrograd, 1913. 



ZiNTuruKiN: TabaKOBOACTBO 11 KOOnepan;ia {The Production of Tobacco and Co-ope- 

 ration), in " B'fecTHHK'fc Koonepamii " [The Messenger of Co-operation) l>io. 5. Pe- 

 trograd, 1914. 



A. E- Kg: 3ajiori> n c6biT% xaCaKy {Advances guaranteed by Deposits of Tobacco and its 

 Sale) " B-fecTHHK-b Me.^Ka^o Kpeji;nTa " No. 7. Petrograd, 1917. 



A new and important conquest of the co-operative principle which 

 has lately been consolidated in Russia concerns the co-operative sale of 

 tobacco. Tobacco growing is a notable branch of agriculture in Ukrania, 

 Southern Russia, Crimea and the Caucpsus. The average area on which 



