AUSTRIA. 



THE REGIONAI, ORGANISATION 

 OF AGRICUlvTlTRAL CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES. 



By Dr. Otto NeudOrfer, 

 Stmor Secretary to the General Federation of Austrian Agricultural Co-operative Societies, Vienna. 



VI. —CO-OPERATION IN THE AUSTRIAN PART OF FRIULI. 



SOURCES: 



Almanacco del popolo per l'anno comune 1909. Stremia della Federazione dei Cousorzi 

 agricoli del Friuli (People's Almanac for the Year, 1909. Presentation Publication of the 

 Agricultural Co-operative Societies of Friuli). 



Aknuari della Federazione dei Consorzi agricoli del Friuli 1907-1912. (Yearbooks of the 

 above Federation, 1907-1912). 



ScHTTLLERN zu SCHATTENHOFEN (Hofrat Profcssot Dr. Hermann, Ritter von) : Das Kok>nat 

 in Gorz and Gradisca, in Istrien, in Dalmatien und in Tirol (The Colonat in the County 

 of Goritz and Gradisca, Istria, Dalmatia and Tyrol). Vienna, 1909. Hof u. Staatsdruckerei. 



Meyer (Pius) : Zur I^age der lychnbauem im osterreichischen Friaul. Ein Beitrag zum Stu- 

 diiun der Koloratsfrage (The Situation of the Tenant Farmers in Austrian Friuli. Contrib- 

 ution to the Study of the Problem of the Colonat). Goritz, 1909. 



OESTERREicmscHE LANDWiRTSCHAFTLiCHE Genossenschaftspresse (Austrian Agricultural 

 Co-operative Press). 



In respect to its co-operative organization the Austrian Friuli occupies 

 a place apart. This little district presents certain peculiarities from the 

 point of view of co-operation, and a remarkable difference from the other 

 regions of the Monarchy both as regards the origin and the application 

 of the co-operative idea. 



Austrian Fritdi, by which name the Italian part of the Country of Goritz 

 and Gradisca is called, forms a large plain which, except for the northern 

 hiUs of Collio and the marshy districts of the South, is fertile and well cultiv- 

 ated. The farmers cultivate various kinds of plants principally vines, mul- 

 berrj'^ trees and wheat. In spite of the abolition of the charges on land and the 

 base tenancies, there still exists to day the colonat, a special kind of lease 

 originating in the Middle Ages which, though it has now the appearance of 

 a free contract, imposes the heaviest burdens on the peasant and robs him 

 of all the profit of his hard work. " The Italian portion of the Covmtry of 



