10 GERMANY - CO-OPERATION AND ASSOCIATION 



will be held this year in Berlin from the 3rd. to 5th. June. — (c) The meet- 

 ing of the " General Federation of Co-operative Societies " of Schuke- 

 Delitsch type {Allgemeiner Verhand der auf Selhsthilfe beruhenden deutschen 

 Efwerbs- und Wirtschaftsgenossenschaften) will be held this year at Mainz 

 from the i8th. to 21st. August. 



National federation of German agricui,turai, co-operative 

 SOCIETIES {Reichsverband der deutschen landwirtschaftlichen Genossen- 

 schaften) at the end op 1913. — On December 31st., 1913, the National 

 Federation included 28 subordinate federations, 52 central co-operative 

 societies and 15,825 co-operative societies, of which 9,400 were loan and 

 savings banks, 2,276 rural co-operative societies for purchase and salo, 

 1,899 co-operative dairies, and 2,198 other co-operative societies, with 

 more than 1,570,000 members. Also united with the National Federation 

 are two federations in the province of Silesia : the " Provincial Federation 

 of Agricultural Co-operative Societies in SUesia " {Provinzialverband schle- 

 sischer landwirtschaftlicher Genossenschaften) and the " Federation of Rural 

 Co-operative Societies in Silesia " {Verband schlesischer Idndlicher Genos- 

 senschaften) with a total of 1,378 co-operative societies. 



The eaiffeisen organisation at the end of 1913. — The " General 

 Federation of German Agricultural Co-operative vSocieties" {Generalverband 

 Idndlicher Genossenschaften in Deutschland) numbered on December 

 31st., 1913, 5,482 affiUated co-operative societies, that is 4,485 associations 

 of the RaifEeisen type (loan and savings banks) and 997 other co-operative 

 societies. 



