INFORMATION RELATING TO CO-OPERATION AND ASSOCIATION 



to be paid-up entirely in one instalment on a simple application from 

 the administrative council and on terms established by the latter ; 2) the 

 admission fee of 10 liras ; c) the ordinary and extraordinary reserve ; 

 d) the income derived from the members' shares. 



Rules for the sale in common of members' woodland products are 

 appropriately established. The technical management of the society is 

 entrusted to a director. The society will not begin to be active until its 

 capital in shares has reached the sum of 10,000 liras; 



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6. THE "FEDERAZIONE APISTICA SUBAI^PINA " {Sub-Alpine Bee-Kceping Federation) 

 — Credito e Cooperazione, Rome, No. i8, 15 September 1917. 



This federation, which has had a de facto existence since 25 Novem- 

 ber iqi4, recently acquired legal form at Turin, becoming a limited liability 

 co-operative society. It aims principally at the progress and populari- 

 zation of scientific agriculture, the improvement of its members as bee- 

 keepers, the collective acquisition and use of the requisites of this in- 

 dustry, and the sale of produce. The charter indicates the various modes 

 of pursuing these ends, and facilitates such pursuit by instituting regional 

 delegations and amply providing in every way for the better and more 

 profitable management of apiaries. 



SWITZBRI.AND. 



THE SWISS UNION OF RAIFFEISEN FUNDS {Union Suisse des caisses Raiffeisen) in 

 1916. — Journal d'agriciilture sitisse, 39th year, No. 45, 6 November 1917 



The number of funds belonging to this union had risen at the end of 

 December 1916 to 199. In the figures on the report it is given as 195, and 

 the number of members as 13,867. The progress made is remarkable for 

 in 1903, that is fourteen years ago, the number of affiliated societies was 

 only 25 and they comprised 1,740 members. In 1910 theie were 139 funds 

 having 9,402 members. German Switzerland contributed to the union 

 12 new funds m 1916 and Romanic Switzerland 4. 



In German Switzerland the canton of Friburg is represented in the union 

 by 28 new funds, Vaud by 19 and Valais by 17. The cantons of Neuchatel 

 and Geneva do not participate in it. The union's report gives the number 

 of the Federated funds which are really Romanic as 50. The others belong 

 to German Switzerland. 



The total turnover which was 20,000,000 francs in 1915 reached 

 37,000,000 francs in 1916. The available resources of the affiliated funds 

 were increased by about a million francs, and term deposits repayable after 

 notice given were increased b}^ about 1,100,000 francs. Current debit ac- 

 counts diminished by 25,000 francs and amounted to 1,240,000 francs. 



The profit and loss account showed, in spite of the importance of bu- 



