N£Vv YOtIK 



Part I: Co-operation and Association 



GERMANY. 



SUPPI^Y OF EIvECTRIC POWER FOR COUNTRY DISTRICTS 

 BY CO-OPERATI\^ ORG.^\NIZATIONS, 



by Dr. Grabein, Berlin. 



sources: 



Reinhahdt (Dr.): Die wirtschaftlichen Voraussetzungen, Erfolge und Organisation der Elek- 

 trizitatsversorgting in landlichen Gebieten (Economic Conditions, Results and Organ- 

 isation of the Supply of Electric Power to Country Districts), Darmstadt, 1910. 

 ViETZE : Ratgeberfurdie.Griindung elektrischer Uberlandzentralen [Manual for the Instit- 

 ution of Regional Central Electric Supply Societies). Berlin, 191 1. Published by Jiilius 

 Springer. 

 Wolff (Dr.): Der lyandwirt und die Uberlandzentrale [The Farmer and the Regional Central 

 Electric Supply Society) Berlin, Ceres Edition. 



To these may added numerous articles published in the " Deutsche lyandwirtschaftliche 

 Genossenschaftspresse " and in the " Elektrotechnische Zcitschrift " as well as the Reports 

 of the Congress of German Agricultural Co-operative Societies of 1909 and the Inter- 

 national Congress of Agricultural Co-operative Societies held at Baden-Baden in 191 2. 

 An extensive bibliography may be found in the above work of Vietze. 



§ I. Extension and organisation 



OF THE CO-OPERATnrE ELECTRIC SUPPLY SOCIETIES. 



The utilisation of electric power in the (.^ountry districts of Germany has 

 made unexpected progress in recent years. The causes of this are various. 

 It is partly to be explained on technical grotmds by the progress, that is 

 to say, of electrical engineering, which has rendered possible, in an economic 

 and practical sense, the estabUshment of high tension currents for very 



