FRANCE. 



RURAL CO-OPERATI\rE BAKEHOUSES. 



SOURCES : 



Statistique des Societes Co-operatives de Production' [Statistics of Co-operative 

 Societies for Production). Bulletin du Ministere du Travail et de la Prevoyance sociale, 

 November, 191 3. 



RoCQUiGNY (Comte de): Una Enquete sur les boulangeries cooperatives rurales [An 

 Enquiry into the Rural Co-operative Bakehouses). Musee Social, December, 1S99. 



§ I. Importance op bakehouses in the co-operative movement 



IN FRANCE. 



The co-operat"ve bakehouses occupy an :mportant position among 

 French co-operative distributive societies. The latest official statistical 

 return compiled from the annual statements of the prefects shows that out 

 of 3,145 co-operative distributive societies of which the existence was known 

 on January ist., 1913, 2,148 were exclusively bakehouses. Of these 1,160 com- 

 municated the number of their members and the amount of their turn- 

 over ; the total number of members was 272,159 and the total turnover 

 61,755,500 frs. In addition, 71 bakehouses only communicated the number 

 of their members, 8,546. 



The following table shows the distribution of these bakehouses per 

 department. No co-operative bakehouse was reported from the depart- 

 ments not shown in the table. 



