INFORMATION REI,ATING TO CO-OPERATION AND ASSOCIATION 3 1 



ticn in the region of Reggio in 1914 will be seen to present the following 

 facts : 



Co-operative societies adhering to the Office of Inspection number 

 156 of which 74 are consumer's societies, 69 labour societies and 13 agricul- 

 tural societies.' The total number of members is 20,580, distributed as 

 follows : 9,204 in co-operative consumers' societies ; 8,876 in co-operative 

 labourers' societies and 2,500 in co-operative agricultural societies. 



The subscribed capital amounts to 1,755,907 liras and reserves to 

 738,876 liras. 



The following figures represent the turnover : sales, 4,198,961 liras ; 

 work 5,845,648 liras. 



The total amount of operations of credit effected by this institution 

 of credit is as follows : 



From I Jul}^ 1911 to 31 December 1912 



(18 months) 6,226,784.57 Hras 



In 1913 4.85'5,936.29 » 



» 1914 5,317,068.22 » . 



» 1915 6,134,063.15 )) 



» 1916 6,882,608.30 » 



Total . . . 29,417,460.53 » 



These data are proof of the importance of the work accomplished and 

 also of the useful ser\dce rendered by this institution to co-operation. 



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4. I,A FEDERAZIONE APISTICA ITAI^IANA. — UAgricoltura italiana, organ of the 

 federation, Nos. i and 2, Ancona, January and Februarj', 1917. 



This Italian Apiarist Federation, which has its headquarters at Ancona, 

 is a limited liabilit^^ co-operative society, having an unlimited capital and 

 aiming at the production and sale of honey and wax (i). It was founded 

 in 1904 on a modest scale but has developed constantly, as is shown by 

 the following table. 



(i) The Federazione apistica subalpina is in course of construction at Turin in the form of 

 a limited liability co-operative society aiming at a) the progress and popularization of rational 

 apiculture ; b) the improvement of members' apiculture ; d) the collective purchase and use of 

 everything necessary to the rational practice of this industry ; d) tlie marketing of products. 

 See in this connection Apicoltore moderno, Nos. 3 and 4, Turin, March and April 191 7. 



