THE DISTRICT OF TRENT. A MODEL CO-OPERATIVE DISTRICT 



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to advise in regard to all applications for the execution of works of im- 

 provement. 



In the best centres of livestock improvement in the Trent District there 

 are now livestock improvement societies organized on a co-operative basis. In 

 1912 all these societies were united in a Federation, to provide for the more 

 effectual co-ordination and uniformity of the Avork of the livestock improvers, 

 both as regards the collective sale and purchase of butchers' beasts and 

 breeding stock, the grazing of the same, the collective grazing of yoimg 

 cattle etc. 



With the object of promoting the dairy industry, the Trent Di\'ision 

 of the Provincial Council of Agriculture published model rules for the 

 dairy societies in its Yearbook for 1884 (i). 



These have increased to an extraordinary degree ; in 1887 there 

 were in the District of Trent 247 dairies; in 1901, 313; in i9('2,32i; in 1903, 

 324; in 1913, 403. 



In 1891 there were 321 dairy societies in the whole of Austria, and of 

 these 164 in the Trent District ; in 1899 ^^^ dairies in the whole of 

 Austria were 708, 256 of them belonging to the Trent District. At present 

 the Trent Division of the Provincial Council of Agriculture is intent on resolv- 

 ing on modern principles the com.plex problem of the Trent dair^^ industry 

 and, therefore, on reorganizing also this department of the co-operation of 

 the district, being strongly supported in the matter by the Central and Pro- 

 vincial Governments. The State and Provincial subventions granted for 

 the improvement of dairying can only be accorded to dairj^ or cheese dairy 

 societies satisfying certain definite conditions laid down by the Depart- 

 ment in agreement with the Provincial Executive Committee. Xew dairy 

 societies or unions composed of one or more undertakings in one locality 

 must be constituted under the form of limited liability co-operative 

 consortiums, submit to inspection of their accounts by the Federation 

 of the Co-operative Consortiums of the Italian part of the Province and in 

 their technical business to the supervision of the Provinial Council; they, 

 may, then, expect subsidies of between 20 and 30. % by way of con- 

 tribution to the expense of the construction of the new dairy or the adapt- 

 ation of the old buildings to the purposes of a central dairx' or the 

 daily treatment of such a quantity of milk as may cover the expense of 

 the working. 



The Department of Agriculture, the Pro\nnce and the Trent Division 

 of the Provincial Council of Agriculture, then, grant special subventions 

 to provide the dairj^ societies with new implements and improved 

 machinery. 



(b) Non-A gricultural. 



Various consortiums have been formed in the Trent District for the pro- 

 duction of electric light and pow er. vSome of them have given good results ; 



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