REGISTERED CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES AND FEDERATIONS 



As regards the increase and decrease in the various provinces, there is 

 first of all to be noted an extraordinary activity in Galicia in the direction 

 of founding societies ; in this province, in 1912, the co-operative societies 

 increased ii.i % ; the province thus shared in the total increase to the 

 amount of 34.2 %. 



The decrease in this province was only 1.5 %, or 18.4 % of the total 

 number of dissolutions in the year. In Bohemia there was an increase of 

 7.1%, correspondiug with 25.4 % of the total increase, and 2.0 % of the 

 Bohemian societies were dissolved, that is to say 27.4 % of the total number 

 dissolved. Moravia shared in the total increase in the proportion of 10.7 %. 

 In the other provinces the increase was in proportion to their economic 

 development. In Camiola and Trieste there was indeed an increase but 

 not as great as in the preceding year. In 1912 Trieste lost 8.3 % of its 

 societies and Carniola 7.4 %. 



In Galicia 162 Schulze-Delitzsch banks were founded, that is to say the 

 majority of those founded in 1912: however, at the same time, 30 were dis- 

 solved. In Galicia also the largest number of Raiffeisen Banks (136) 

 were founded. 



The largest number of distributive societies (42) were registered in 

 Bohemia, in this kingdom also the largest number of societies (24) were 

 dissolved. The provinces in which there was the largest increase of agri- 

 cultural co-operative societies were Gahcia (109), Tyrol (55) and l/ower 

 Austria (40) : the largest number of dissolutions in this group took place 

 in Bohemia (32) and Camiola (24). There were 52 new industrial societies 

 founded in Bohemia, 31 in GaUcia and 22 in Moravia; the largest niunbers 

 dissolved belonged to Bohemia and Galicia (17 in each case). With regard to 

 the building societies, Bohemia comes first with 74 new foundations, then 

 Moravia and Vienna with 17 each ; there were 12 societies of this group dis- 

 solved in Bohemia, and 4 in Moravia and Vienna each. 



The following table is drawn up from information given in the above 

 article of the " Oestcrreichische landwirtschaftliche Genossenschaftspresse ". 



