AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATION IN THE KINGDOM OF SAXONY 



marks from other sources during the year. Administrative expenses 

 amounted to 99,221 marks and interest on borrowed capital to 43,793 

 marks. The net profits of nineteen societies were 18,169 inarks and 

 three societies closed their books showing a loss of 1,866 marks. The land 

 and real estate of eighteen societies represented at the end of 1914 a value 

 of 1,054,698 marks, while four societies rented their pasture land. At the 

 same date the estimated value of the shelters on the pastures was 99,319 

 marks. The total turnover was 766,028 marks as against 832,538 marks 

 in the preceding year. 



Besides having their own circulating funds these co-operative socie- 

 ties have received help from the State, to the extent of 307,733 marks 

 lent on pasture land exclusively and more than 661,864 n^arks lent on mort- 

 gages. 



/) Collective Dairies. — During the year under review the collective 

 dairies numbered 1,202 members, as against 1,164 ^^ the previous year, 

 and their turnover amounted to 75.880,973 marks as against 72,797,585 

 marks in the preceding year. The members furnished 72,729,741 kilo- 

 grammes (i) of milk and received 7,296,815 marks. The average price 

 paid for a kilogramme of milk was. 13.33 pfennigs (2). Receipts from the 

 products of the cheese industry amounted to 11,363,178 marks as against 

 10,981,601 marks in the previous j^ear. 



g) Co-operative Societies for the Essication of Potatoes. — The fol- 

 lowing data have reference only to five of the six co-operative societies for 

 the essication of i)otates which belong to the Saxon federation, and they 

 concern the year from I July 1913 to 30 June 1914. The members numbered 

 996, the total turnover amounted to 3,316,746 marks and the receipts to 

 30,019 marks. L,ands and buildings represented a value of 369,529 marks 

 and machines one of 257,999 marks. The societies' own combined capital 

 surpassed 300,000 marks ; they used 232,835 marks of capital belonging 

 to others, and from the State they received 143,000 marks on mortgages 

 and 72,200 marks in loans. 



h) Other Co-operative Societies. — The results of the year under 

 review do not differ much from those of the preceding year in the case of 

 the co-operative societies providing a water-supply, those undertaking the 

 essication of corn, the co-operative mills, etc. 



Those concerned with the supply of water numbered twenty-six, 

 namely three more than in the preceding year, and comprised 1,166 members. 

 Those concerned with the essication of corn numbered eleven and 

 comprised 167 members. There were fourteen other co-operative socie- 

 ties having different aims and numbering 1854 members. The turnover 

 of these fourteen amounted to 17,452,437 marks, their profits to abou^ 

 56,000 marks. 



(i) I kilogramme = 2.205 lbs. 

 (2) I pfennig = o.oi mark. 



