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JAPAN - CO-OPERATION AND ASSOCIATION 



7 yen ; when it was greater the additional amounts were fixed by agreement 

 on each occasion. 



The cost of transport is borne by the producer who must deUver free 

 at the station; any charges for storage must, however, be borne by the 

 brewer. 



There would be no use in going into further particulars. We think 

 it, however, advisable to reproduce here some general facts with regard 

 to the consumption of barley in the breweries and the part the co-operative 

 sale societies have taken in supplying it to them. 



The following table shows the actual consumption of barley in the 

 three years 1908, 1909 and 1910 by the I^imited Iviability Society for Brewing 

 Dai Nippon Beer {Dai Nippon Biru Kabushiki Kwaisha) compared with the 

 amotmt estimated in the contracts (in Koku). 



1908 



1909 



Estimated Amount 1,000 2,500 3,000 



Actual Consumption 955 2,481 2,425 



The following figures show the total profits of the producers through 

 the collective sale of their barley by the societies of agriculture. 



Year 



Quantity and Amoimt 

 of Barley Sold 



Total Profit 



of the 

 Pioducers 



1908. 

 1909. 

 I910. 



7,029 

 17,609 

 17,064 



Yen 



1,194 

 3,250 

 3,734 



It is worth noting that the profits of the producers are constantly 

 increasing : this is the principal reason that incites them to resort more 

 and more to this system of sale. 



Without further illustration and other examples, we shall make a 

 few brief remarks on some other co-operative associations concerned in 

 the collective sale of cereals. 



We shall first of all mention that the Society of Agriculture of the Ka- 

 nagawa Province in 1910 began the collective sale of wheat, and the results 

 have been from the start more than satisfactory. 



But even independently of the agricultural societies, in recent times co- 

 operative societies for production and sale have been formed to provide 

 special industrial establishments, and more particularly breweries, with the 



