MISCKlvIvANEOUS INFORMATION RELATING TO CO OPERATION 

 AND ASSOCIATION IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES. 



GERMANY. 



SOME FACTS AS TO THE CO-OPERATIVE MOVEIVEENT IN GERMANY. — Jahrbuch 

 des allgemeinen Verbatidcs der auf Selhsthilfe heruhenden deutschen Erwerbs- und Wirt- 

 schaftsgenossenschafien e. v. fiir 1914. XVIII Jahtgang, Berlin, 1915. 



On I January 1915 there were 117 central and 36,032 ordinary co-ope- 

 rative societies. More than half of these — 55.4 per cent. — were in Prus- 

 sia. The number of central co-operative societies had not changed since i 

 January 1914, but that of the others had increased by 1,006. All or almost 

 all this increase dated however from the months before the war. The in- 

 crease between i January and i August 1914 was one of 941 which is to 

 say that between i August 1914 and i January 1915 it was only of 65. It 

 should be noted that between i January and i August 1915 it was of 122. 



As compared with preceding years 1914 showed lessened progress, the 

 increase having been 1369 in 1913, 1676 in 1912, and 1426 in 1911. The 

 increase of 1006 in 1914 was not equally distributed among the various kinds 

 of co-operative societies. It included 400 credit societies, 168 trade socie- 

 ties, 199 societies for the purchase of primary materials, 116 breeding 

 societies, 69 house-letting societies, 52 rural producers' societies, and no 

 important number of any society of another kind. 



The total number of 36,032 co-operative societies was distributed as 

 follows : 



1. Credit societies 19.700 



2. Societies for the purchase of the primary materials of 



industry' 846 



3. Rural societies for the purchase of primary materials 3.167 



4. Merchants'societies for the purchase of merchandise 306 



5. Consumers' societies 2,418 



6. Societies for the purchase of agricultural machines 22 



7. Labour societies ^ 2,368 



8. Producers'societies 4-555 



9. Breeding societies 39^ 



10. Societies for letting dwellings 1.538 



11. Various societies 7^6 



Total . . . 36,032 



