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rate of 5 per cent, on their paid-np capital, and the remainder was 

 divided among the council and the employees. 



The profit and loss account shows that this bank also spent during 

 the year more than 3,000 liras on beneficent objects. 



3. THE STATISTICS OF THE CATHOLIC SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS. — 

 Azione Sociale, orgRV. of the Social and Economic Union of Catholic Italians, Fatnza, No. 14 

 November 1916. 



The Unione Economico-Sociale jra i CaUoUci Italiani is compiling 

 general statistics as to social and economic associations in Itaty. With this 

 object it has already circulated a special form of questions, asking the 

 name of a given society, its site and address, data as to its constitution 

 — whether legal or merely actual — , the number of its members (including 

 those under arms), its collective property on 31 December 1915, its re- 

 ceipts in 1 91 5, the assessment of members, the assessments or premiums 

 received in 1915, its expenses in 1915. 



.Societies of the following categories are the objects of the enquiry' : 

 mutual aid societies, mutual insurance societies (of live stock and against 

 fire and hail), agricultural unions for collective purchase, consumers' co-op- 

 erative societies, labour and producing co-operative societies, co-operative 

 societies for agriculture and collecdve letting and for building popular 

 dwellings, and trade organizations (including offices of labour and secre- 

 tariats of the people and of emigration). 



National federations adhering to the Union have also been invited to 

 supply data relative to 1915 or of later date, in order that a complete pic- 

 tture of Catholic economic organization may be obtained. In due time we 

 willfshow the chief conclusions drawn from these important statistics. 



RUSSIA. 



I. CO OPERATIVE SUPPLY AND PRODUCTION OP AGRICULTURAL MACHINES. 



1) KoBA.itB.JI. (Koval v. D.): Co-oPERATrvE Trade in AGRicuLTtjRAL Machines in Ma- 



iiiiiHa B73 cejlL-CKOMij Xo3HiicTB'fe (The Machine in Agriculture) N°. i, Kiev, 15 

 Januarj' 191 6 ; 



2) JlEniEBOii M. (Dechevoj M.): The Agrictxltuk.al Machine Industry in Russia, ibid : 



Nos. 10 and 11, 31 May and 15 June 1916 ; 



3) Zt-oj M. (D-oj M.) : The Dissemin.'vtion of Agricultural Machines and Implements 



BY Co-oper.'^tive Credit, ibid : Nos. 14 and 15-16, 15 August and i and 30 September 

 1916. 



The collective supply of agricultural machines and implements in Rus- 

 sia is now chiefly undertaken by the co-operative credit unions, who have 



