32 INFORMATION REL,ATING TO CO-OPERATION AND ASSOCIATION 



1,018,297 liras ; savings 3,172,506 liras ; administrative council 320,328 

 liras ; thrift fund 1,087,060 liras ; research fund, 107,407 liras. 



The union occupies a building in wliich it sells stuffs, shoes, hats, li- 

 nen, clothes, carpets, furniture, etc., and includes numerous gilds devoted 

 to the various kinds of manufacture. It comprises forty-iune sections for 

 the sale of the different kinds of food and wine, and five depots for com- 

 bustibles. It possesses a great warehouse for wine, capable of receiving 

 50,000 hectolitres (i) and provided with the most modern and perfect ma- 

 chiner\^ It has premises for treating pig-flesh in which all such products 

 sold in its various branches — amounting last year to a value of 773,036 

 liras — are prepared ; and also a confectioner's shop, three restaurants, 

 a printing-press and a book-binder3^ In May 1914 it opened a new depart- 

 rhent — the deposit bank which has already received savings amounting 

 to' 575,629 liras, on which interest is paid at the rate of 4 Y2 P^^ cent. Vi- 

 nally beside the gates of Milan it has made the Milauino, Italy's first garden- 

 city. 



' ■ - The union recounts its activity in its own monthly review, L' Idea 

 GodfeKativa, which it distributes to its members without charge. 



RUSSIA. 



THE FINNISH SUPERINTENDING SOCIETIES IN THE YEARS 1913-1915. — For 

 \ landtmannahem : Helsiugfors, September 1916. 



\ . The Administration of Agriculture has published a report on the ac- 

 tivity of the Finnish superintending societies in the year 1915. 



, In 1915, 65,648 cows yielded on an average 1,926 kilogrammes (2) of 

 milk each, furnishing 75.34 kilogrammes of butter (3.91 per cent) ; in 1914 

 the average yield of each of 60,589 cows was 2,017 kilogrammes of milk 

 which furnished 77.85 kilogrammes of butter (3.86 per cent.) ; in 1913 the 

 average yield of each of 43,392 cows was 2,085.6 kilogrammes of milk 

 and 80.66 kilogrammes of butter (3.86 per cent.) 



The largest gross yield occurred in the district of L,ojo (Nyland pro- 

 vince) where each of 437 cows gave on an average 3,251 kilogrammes of 

 milk and 121.43 kilogrammes of butter (3.73 per cent.) for a consumption 

 of 2,281 units of forage. In two other districts of the province of Nyland 

 the average for one cow was more than 100 kilogrammes of butter : namely 

 in the district of Ekenas — 2,927 kilogrammes of milk and 106.38 kilo- 

 grammes of butter (3.65 per cent.) for a consumption of 1,983 units of for- 

 age ; and in the district of East Helsinge — 2,811 kilogrammes of milk 



1) I hectoUtre = 0.344 ciiiarters. 



2) I kilogramme = 2 Vs lbs. 



