BELGIUM. 



NEW OFFICIAIv vSTATISTICS 

 OF THE AGRICULTURAI. ASSOCIATIONS IN BELGIUM. 



SOURCES : 



Expose STATiSTiQxm de la situation des associations u'lNTfeRfer agricole pendant l'an- 

 Ni;E 1911 {Statistics of the Associations of Agricultural Interest for the Year 1911). Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture and Public Works. Agricultural Division. Brussels, Odry-Mom- 

 mens, 1913. 



Ihe Department of Agriculture and Public Works has recently 

 published a new statistical return of the agricultural associations, the result 

 of a special enquiry held in 1912, 'ihe figures are for the end of 1911. 



As in previous tables, the societies are divided into five classes, 

 that is : 



ia) Agricultural professional unions (agricultural cornices and 

 leagues, farmwomen's clubs, beekeepers' societies, poultry improvement 

 societies, Hvestock improvement syndicates, etc) ; 



(i) Societies or syndicates for the purchase of seeds, manure, 

 cattle foods, and agricultural machinery ; 



(c) Societies or syndicates for the sale of milk and manufacture and 

 sale of butter and cheese (co-operative dairies) ; 



[d) lyand credit societies (agricultural counting houses. Raiffeisen 

 banks, central land credit banks, Schulze-DeUtzsch banks) . 



{e) Agricultural insurance societies (for Uvestock insurance and 

 insurance of agricultural produce). 



In this article we shall give the most important figures for the first 

 four classes of associations, reserving for a future article those relating to 

 the insurance societies. 



