GERMANY - CO-OPERATION AND ASSOCIATION 



Should the number of members be sufficiently large to inspire 

 confidence* in the proposed measures, the managing committee will have 

 the right to fix what proportion of the crop must be preserved, taking 

 into account the results of the harvest, and the state of the market of cattle 

 foods. It is calculated that no more than lo % of the quantity produced 

 will be subject to this compulsory preservation. That the committee may 

 be able to learn the exact state of the markets, members are to let the 

 society know the extent of the area they have planted with potatoes, the 

 3deld they expect, and that actually obtained. 



The annual contribution for each mrmber is only lo pf. per 

 hectaie cultivated with potatoes. If any member, by reason of special 

 circumstances (for instance facility for sale in the vicinity of great urban 

 centres), wishes to avoid the obligation of preserving part of his crop^ 

 he must pay a tax of 2 pf. per quintal or 2 marks per hectare. With 

 the amount of this tax, the society proposes to promote the trade in the 

 manufactured produce of potatoes. 



The fact that this society has for its basis the provincial branches of the 

 "Association of Spirit Manufacturers " {Verein der Spiritusfabrikanten) , the 

 most solid of all the agricultural commercial organisations in Germany, is a 

 proof that the varied conditions of the country will be taken into consider- 

 ation. But as membeis of this association, besides being agriculturists, had 

 also to own distilleries, the rules of the new society permit other cultiv- 

 ators of potatoes to be represented on the presidential committees of the 

 sections. The general presidential committee is composed of the committees 

 of the sections, and from among the members of the general committee 

 the managing committee is elected. 



Besides the association with which the idea originated, other members 

 of the new society are the "Association of Potato-driers in Germany" 

 {Verein Deutscher Kartoffeltrockner) and the " Association of those Inter- 

 ested in Starch Making in Germany " {Verein der Star ke-I titer essenten 

 in Deutschland) and numerous agricultural corporations. Recognising all 

 the economic and social advantages to be derived from the realisation 

 of this object of the society, the German Council of Agriculture and the 

 Prussian College of Rural Economy have expressed their desire that 

 German agriculturists and their repiesentatives should exert all their 

 energies in behalf of the society about to be established. 



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3. — Constitution of a Prussian federation of farmwomen's 

 ASSOCIATIONS {PreussiscJier Landesverband landwirtschaftlicher Hausfrauen- 

 vereine). — Of late years Farmwomen's Associations have arisen in 

 increasing numbers, first in the provinces of East Prussia and then 

 in Schleswig-Holstein. Their aim more especially is to instruct their 

 members in domestic economy, to engage in the sale of domestic rural 

 products and to provide, by means of the establishment of shops in cities, 

 good and fresh food supplies for families in urban centres; in fact to equalise 



