ITALY. 



COI^IvRCTIVE DAIRIES. 



•SOURCES : 



Camparini (I,ui.gi) and Ruscelt.oni (Alfredo) : Manuale per le latterie. Appunti di legislazione, 

 amministrazione, contabilita {Dairy Manual. Notes on legislation, administration, and book 

 keeping) Published by the " Unione Nazionale delle I<atterie sociali e cooperative". Reg- 

 gio d'Emilia, Typ. R. Bondavilli, 1913. 



Cerlini (A.) : l,a cooperazione casearia italiana {Italian Co-operative Cheesemaking) in " Gior- 

 nale di Agricoltuia della Domenica ". Special number on cheesemaking, No. 7, Piacenza, 

 14 February igi.v 



Bassi (Dr. Ercole) : I,e latterie sociali in Italia {Collective Dairies in Italy). Milan, Casa editrice 

 Giacomo Agnelli, 1910. 



Bernini (Dr. Professor Ottormo) : Manuale per le piccole latterie cooperative {Manual for 

 Small Co-operative Dairies). Mantua, Typ. A. Mondavi, 1914. 



MoNTANABi (Dr. P.) : Associazioni per la stagionatura e lo sniercio dei prodotti caseari (Associa- 

 tion for Maturing and Selling the Products of Cheesemaking). Reggio d'Emilia, Cooperativa 

 lavoranti tipografi, 1912. 



NiCCOLi (Prof. V.) Cooperative rurali (Rural Co-operative Societies). Milan, U. Hoepli, 1909. 



Reggiani (E.) : I<a produzione del latte e le latterie sociali co-operative {Milk Production and 

 Co-operative Collective Dairies). Milan, U. Hoepli, 1908. 



NoTiziE SULLA SocietA anonima Co-operativa l.^tteria So'R'E'Sii^'ESv: {Information as to the Co- 

 operative Dairy having Limited Laibility at Soresina) . Published on the occasion of the fourth 

 national congress of collective dairies at Cremona ^6,1- and 18 September, igi2. Soresina, 

 Mariani Brothers, 1912. 



Unione nazion.\le delle latterie sociali e co-operative {National Union of C'Hective and 

 Co-opetative Dairies). Report on the moral activity of the union in roi.'^- Reggio d'Emilia, 

 Cooperativa fra lavoranti tipografi ed affini, 191 6. 



The collective dairies are among the most noteworthy and happiest 

 manifestations of the co-operative movement. If indeed there is an agricul- 

 tural industry which can profit by co-operation — both in point of technique 

 and in point of economy — it is the cheesemaking industry ; and this fact 

 explains the rapid and admirable development of collective dairies 

 throughout most of Italy. 



In Italy the}" have an ancient tradition for in their earliest form the}' 

 date back to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries . This form was one 



