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Balance Sheet of the Toyochi Co-operative Society {working year 1909.) 



(a) Credits. 



Share Capital not Paid up yen 10,640.00 



Loans to Members » 19,005.99 



Deposits with Credit Institutes » 2,722.40 



Real Estate » 1,080.00 



Furniture » 220.00 



Advances » 6,208.60 



Interest not Collected » 291.00 



Goods )) 956.57 



Cash » 204.84 



Total ... )) 41.330-39 



(a) Debits. 



Capital Paid up yen 21,280.00 



Deposits » 17,468.33 



Interest » 299.87 



Reser\^e Fund » 539-40 



Special Reserve Fund » 318.28 



Credit Balance » 1,424.51 



Total ... » 41,330.39 



{B) Co-operative Society of Aritama. 



This society was founded in the heart of one of the richest provinces 

 of Japan, that of Shidzuoka, which, besides being one of the most ad- 

 vanced in an agricultural sense, was also the cradle, of the Japanese co-op- 

 erative movement. The produce of the soil of the village of Aritama (Dis- 

 trict of Hamana) is most varied: rice, wheat, ginger, hemp, tobacco etc. 

 In addition, the industries auxiliary to agriculture, such as silkworm rear- 

 ing, silk spinning etc. are there held in high honour., Notwithstanding 

 this, as the financial position was not always flourishing, transport was 

 difficult and costly and the risks were not covered, the need was early 

 felt for making some provision. Indeed, after the war between China and 

 Japan (1895), the country had suffered so much that the constitution of a 

 co-operative society became absolutely necessary. First of all a co-oper- 

 ative credit society was founded : ten years later, in 1905, it was 



