28 INFORMATION REI.ATIXG TO CO-OPERATION AND ASSOCIATION 



to the Educational Institutes of Cremona, at a fixed rent of 16.50 liras (i) 

 the perch. To provide live and other stock — more than fifty heads of 

 live stock have already been acquired — the Society has advanced more 

 than fift}^ thousand liras. The, work which will be collectively directed, 

 will be executed mainly by casual labour supplied by the members. Oril}'^ 

 two families have been engaged permanently, and they will have to attend 

 principally to the management of the live stock. 



The direction of the work is entrusted to an expert, chosen from among 

 the members, who will manage the farm " according to the criteria of the 

 most rigid scrupulosity ". 



Wages will be fixed according to the contracts locally customary', all 

 rules as to insurance against accidents, disablement and old age being es- 

 pecially ob.served. 



The administrations of the religious bodies of Cremona have decided 

 to substitute, whenever any of the leases of their landed property expire, 

 a co-operative society of cultivators for the individual farmer. Thiis in 

 this province there is a distinct movement towards collective leases, which 

 should meet with the success obtained by similar enterprises in the prov- 

 inces of Ravenna, Reggio, Emilia, Mantua. 



3. THE " SOCIETA ANONIMA COOPERATIVA PER 1,'ESPORTAZIONE DEI PRODOTTI 

 AGRICOIyl " (2) OF JESI IN 1915-1916. — Report for 1915-1916 approved by the general 

 meeting of members on 25 Jmie 1916. Jesi, 1916. 



This society has two sections, one for the export abroad of agricultu- 

 ral products, the other for the acquisition and the sale to members of ar- 

 ticles useful to agriculture. In 1915-1916 it sold merchandise having an 

 aggregate value of 931,850.66 liras, distributed as follows : 



Chemical manures liras 498,842.55 



Meadow and various seeds » 258,732.87 



Anti-cryptogamous substances. ... » 130,658.96 



Agricultural and various machines. . » 24,308.68 



Fodder for live stock )i 19,307.60 



Total .... liras 931,850.66 



(i) I lira = 9 ^l^d at par. 



(2) I^imited lyiability Co-operative Society for the Export of Agricultural Products. 



