AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATION IN THE KINGDOM OF SAXONY 



The share of the Agricultural Central Co-operative Society is 2,896,334 

 zentners and 11,643,818 marks ; and a comparison shows that 51 per cent, 

 of the merchandise bought bj' the co-operative societies belonged to it. 

 It is therefore evident that Saxon co-operative societies still derive a large 

 portion of the merchandise the}'- use from dealers. 



Two hundred co-operative societies traded in cereals, namel}' : 



46 co-operative purchase and sale societies, 



properly so called 



13 collective savings and loan banks .... 



140 savings, credit & purchase association's . . 



I co-operative mill 



Total .... 1,615,232 14,233,364 



The collective dairies, the pasturage and the corn-threshing co-operative 

 societies showed good results at the end of the year ; but the co-operative 

 societies for the essication of potatoes had. on the other hand, to struggle 

 against grave difiiculties. 



§ 2. Statistics of agricultural co-operation tn saxony. 



As regards more particularly the statistics of agricultural co-operation 

 in Saxom' we report as follows : 



a) Collective Savings and Loan Banfis. — In 1914-1915 the collec- 

 tive savings and loan banks numbered seventy-nine and they included 

 6,836 members. The total turnover of these societies was in this year 

 53,015,426 marks, net profits amounted to 117,143 marks, the loans granted 

 to 10,342,056 marks, and deposits to 17,391,398 marks. 



The turnover was more by 3,923,062 marks than in the preceding year, 

 which gives an average increase of 33,141 marks for one society. 



The loans represent 53.4 per cent, of the general property of the 

 co-operative societies. As compared with the preceding year they had 

 increased by 338,851 marks. 



If the average for single societies and single members be calculated 

 the following results are obtained : 



