l8 ITALY - CO-OPERATION AND ASSOCIATION 



collective dairy of Soresina of which we have already spoken. The com- 

 munal administrations of Cremona, ]Milan, Pisa, Reggio Emiha, Taranto, 

 Florence, Venice, Genoa, etc. were similarly approached. 



The union is further in the habit of collaborating in the quarterh^ 

 enquiries, into the conditions of the international market for milk and 

 dair^' produce, undertaken by the Swiss Peasants' League in the interest of 

 producers. These enquiries concern the prices curent for forage, and the 

 production and the prices of milk, cheese, butter, etc., The union collects 

 the data of this description needed throughout Italy. It employs in conse- 

 quence more than a hundred correspondents, who are scattered over the 

 various districts and give information as to conditions in each of these, 

 which the union resumes and comunicates to those interested and to the 

 press. 



Finally, as a result of the union's encouragement and the initiative 

 of the itinerant chairs, provincial federations of collective dairies have 

 been formed and are in course of formation, and they conduct an enterprise 

 of technical assistance and advice and consultation. We should note in 

 this connection the Federazione delle Latter ie sociali agordine (Belluno), 

 the Federazione delle Latterie Bergamasche, the federations of dairies of 

 the distrct of Reggio, the lower district of Novara and Lomellina and that 

 of Cremona, and the Federazione delle Latterie now in course of formation. 



It is evident that Italian co-operative cheesemaking is being, httle b}' 

 Httle, organized and completed tinder the impulse and direction given by 

 the Unione Nazionale delle Latterie Sociali. 



