INFORMATION RELATING TO CO-OPERATION AND ASSOCIATION 



The number of members enrolled by these societies amounted to 566, 182. 

 The societies in the principal towns had of course the largest member- 

 ship : in the First Society of Petrograd there were 8,137 members, in the 

 society of the district zemstvo of Petrograd 5,824, in the Society of Trades- 

 men of Moscow 3,390, in the First Society of Odessa 5,477 and in the 

 First Society of Riga 3,576. The smallest membership — thirty-six — was 

 shown by the society of Golodaev in the Don district. 



The societies and their membership were distributed as follows in 

 the different territories : 



Name of Region 



1. Northern 



2. Moscow manufacturers 



3. Central farmers 



4. On and beyond the Volga .... 



5. White Russia and Ivithuania . . . 



6. Little and »South Western Russia . 



7. Region of Southern Steppes . . . 



8. Kankasas 



g. Siberia 



10. Central Asia 



11. Baltic Provinces 



12. Kini^dom of Poland 



Total . . . 1,039 566,182 



As can be seen the majority of existing credit societies, and those hav- 

 ing the largest membership, are scattered over Little Russia and the south 

 and south western part of the State, that is over the districts which are 

 noted as providing corn to Europe — the governments of Poltova, Tcher- 

 nigoff, Kiev, Bessarabia, Tauria and PodoUa. 



The capital of the societies amounted to 144,268,000 roubles 

 115,791,000 roubles constituting the working capital, 15,579,000 roubles 

 the reserve funds, and 12,898,000 roubles special capital. The capital of 

 the First Petrograd Credit Society was 4,644,000 roubles, that of the 

 Second Petrograd vSociety 4,327,000 roubles, and that of the Moscow 

 Tradesmen 5,259,000 roubles. Their deposits reached 586,738,000 roubles, 

 188,615,000 roubles being withdrawable after notice had been given, and 

 398,123,000 — which was on current account — without notice. Their 

 loans amounted to 106,318,000 roubles. 



Discount being the chief business of the existing credit societies, 

 493,727,000 roubles under the head of exchange was more than half 

 the whole sum on the credit side of their accounts. They lent 115,960,000 



