12 GERMANY - CO-OPERATION AND ASSOCIATION 



The threshing work is distributed over a longer time in proportion as 

 the area served by the Central Society is larger and the variety of the 

 agricultural character of the area itself is greater. 



Besides in addition to agriculture, manufactures provide a consider- 

 able number of customers in a region industrially so advanced as the Pro- 

 vince of Saxony. Interesting figures in this connection are to be found in the 

 recently published annual report of the above federation for 1912-1913. 

 According to these, in igii-12 : 



Agriculture and Small Industries used 



for light 1,350,00 Kilowatt hours 



for motor power 2,100,000 " " 



Manufactures used 



for light 260,000 " " 



for motor power 2,800,000 " " 



The need of electric power for agriculture and small industries is, 

 according to these figures, greater than for manufactures. The large con- 

 sumption for light in the case of agriculture and small industries, in com- 

 parison with that in the case of m^anifactures is particularly striking. This 

 is explained, when we remember that in the manufacturing field the use 

 of electric power for illumination of houses is very much more restricted. 

 The large increase of consumption in 1911-1912, 160% of that of the 

 previous year, authorizes the conclusion that in future there will be an 

 even larger increase. Manufactures especially are assuming continually 

 greater importance as consumers of electric power. So the hope appears 

 to be well founded, that the central societies may in the future become 

 completely remunerative and, in fact, the Yearbook of the National Fed- 

 eration for 1912 shows that a certain nutnber of the central societies, 

 although they have only existed a very short time, already show a net 

 profit. 



Thus we have for : 



Gardelegen 67,950 marks 



Gohrde 31,120 



Saalkreis Butterfeld 20,071 



Weferlingen 63,930 " 



On the co-operative electric undertakings of other districts it is not 

 possible here to pass a definite judgment. 



From the various scattered notices appearing from time to time 

 in the co-operative and technical press, we may, however, infer that 

 the small local co-operative electric workshops have generally charged 

 high rates with rather moderate financial results. Thus they charge 50 

 and even 60 pf. per kilowatt hour for lighting purposes, and from 30 

 to 40 pf. for motor power, while the corresponding prices asked by 



