36 ITAIvY - CO-OPERATION AND ASSOCIATION 



Mutual Livestock Insurance Societies. — In the province of Parma 

 numerous societies of this nature have arisen on the initiave of the Parma 

 Agricultural Association. They have gi\en very satisfactory results. 



(/) II Censor zio Macchine Agrarie di Ravenna. — Promoted by the 

 Agricultural Association of Ravenna, it proposes to acquire on its own 

 account threshing machines for wheat, oats and rice etc. and any others 

 that l^may be required, to employ such machines on its own account, 

 and to take such initiative as may directly or indirectly tend to the 

 development of agricultural machinery and of agriculture generally. 



