MISCELLANEOUS NEWS 



the advantages of city and country. These institutions are widely diffused ; 

 chiefly in East Prussia, where there are more than thirty, with a turn 

 over, in 1911, of 722,000 marks, and in 1912 of 865,000 marks. 



The women's associations in the four provinces of East Prussia, 

 West Prussia, Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein, have aheady formed 

 themselves into provincial federations, and in other provinces they will 

 soon take similar steps. 



At an assembly held in Berlin, February 17th., 1914, on the initiative 

 of the " Prussian Royal College of Rural Economy ", at which there were 

 present representatives of the four provincial federated societies, and of 

 those farmwomen's societies of prolan ces in which there are not yet 

 federations, and also delegates from the Chambers of Agriculture concerned, 

 it was decided to establish a " Prussian Federation of Farmwomen's 

 Associations " {Preiissischer Landesverhand landwirtschaftlicher Hausfrauen- 

 verein) . 



By No. 3 of its rules, the Federation proposes to form a central instit- 

 ution for the work of the provincial federations among the agricultural 

 housewives' associations, and to act as their representative, especially 

 in regard to : 



1st., Courses for the completion of the education of housewives in 

 domestic matters. 



2nd., Courses of domestic economy for girls. 



3rd., Increase in profits from domestic economy and facilitation 

 of sales of produce. 



4th., Supply of fresh food to families in the cities. 



5th., Encouragement of fruit growing and horticulture, bee and 

 poultry keeping, on scientific principles, as well as other branches of domestic 

 economy. 



6th., Struggle against the exodus from the country to cities, main- 

 tenance of family life among agricultural laboureis, by the creation of 

 profitable household industries ; the provision of lucrative, independent, 

 agreeable work for women indoors, or in the cultivation of vegetables 

 and flowers, and provision that women agricultural labourers may have 

 opportunities of sharing in the advantages of the Farmwomen's As- 

 sociations. 



4. — News Items. >:=***** Congresses of German co-operative socie- 

 ties IN 1914. — (a) The 30th. congress (Deutscher Landwirtschaftlicher Genos- 

 senchaftstag) of the National Federation of German Agricultural Co-operative 

 Societies {Reichsverhand der deutschen landwirtschaftlichen Genossenschaften) 

 will be held this year in Breslau from the 6th. to nth. July. — {h) The member's 

 meeting of the " General Federation of German Co-operative Agricultural 

 Societies ", Raiffeisen type [Generalverband Idndlicher Genossenschaften fur 

 Deutschland) and the general meeting of the ' Central Rural Loan Bank 

 of Germany " {Landwirtschaftliche Zeniral-Darlehnskasse filr Deutschland} 



