GERMANY - CO-OPERATIOX AND ASSOCIATION 



The details of purchases show that the following sums were spent on 

 the following articles in the two years compared : 



Manure. 



Forage. 



Combustibles 



Seeds. . . 



^Machines. 



Various. 



21,892,942 marks 



17,476,904 )' 



6,456,275 » 



2,189,015 » 



910,322 » 



6,049,771 » 



23.979-835 marks 



19,899,825 

 6,973,625 » 

 2,532,716 " 



1.344.194 '■ 

 4,451,265 » 



The sale of merchandise for members was unimportant, special co-oper- 

 ative societies having been created for this object. The value of the mer- 

 chandise sold by the rural banks was 2,743,861 marks. 



For the 4,421 rural banks the year's books were closed showing : 

 a profit in the case of 



3,884 which realized altogether 3,212,113 marks of profit; 

 a loss in that of 516 >) lost » 523,214 » . 



Twenty-one realized neither a loss nor a profit. 



The net profits were therefore 2,688,899 marks, as against 2,852,416 

 marks in the previous year. 



Co-operative Societies of CoxsuiiPTiox, Production axd 

 Labour. 



At the end of 1914, 1045 co-operative societies of this kind belonged 

 to the General Raiffeisen Federation. In 1915 it was joined by thirty- 

 six more while fifteen ceased to belong, so that the total membership 

 was 1066, distributed as follows : 



