MISCEIvIvANEOUS INFORMATION RELATING TO CO-OPERATION 

 AND ASSOCIATION IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES. 



BRITISH INDIA. 



THE PROGRESS OF CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES IN BARODA STATE. 



The ±eport of the registrar of Baroda State for 1914-15 shows a very 

 considerable progress made by co-operative societies. The following table 

 gives some details : 



(i) I rupee = is 41/. 



The registrar states that except in a few places no special efforts were 

 made to organize new societies, but that the people came forward of their 

 own accord, being generally influenced by the successful working of a 

 society in their neighbourhood. 



The reserve fund of all the societies amounted to Rs. 69,584 as against 

 Rs. 44,500 in the previous year. The amount of loans granted was Ro. 

 586,566, having increased in the year by Rs. 73,358. Nearly one third 

 of the loans were made for such ordinary agricultural purposes as the pitr- 

 chase of seed or manure and the payment of labourers' wages. Others 

 were for the purchase of cattle and implements, the pa^-ment of land reve- 

 nue and old debts, and trading, industrial and domestic purposes. 



