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INFORMATION RELATING TO CO-OPERATION AND ASSOCIATION 



Development of the Federation from 1904 to 1916. 



The continuall}' increasing membership is explained by the advan- 

 tages procured by this federation, and also by a very wise provision of the 

 administrative council that members need pay immediately only half in- 

 stead of the whole amount of a share of 50 liras, paying the rest in three 

 annual instalments. 



5. THE CONSTITUTION OF LA FEDERAZIONE DELLE LATTERIE SOCIAI^I CRE- 

 MONESI. — Bollettino deU'Agricoltura, No. 7, Milan, 15 Februarj' 1917. 



Their common interests and the desirability of an interchange of ad- 

 vice and assistance suggested to the collective dairies in the district of Cre- 

 mona the idea of forming a federation, and to this the dairies of Soresina, 

 Acquanegra, vSesto, Forcello, Ca de Stefani, Ca de Corti and Piadena 

 have already adhered. The federation proposes to buy on behalf of 

 the federated societies merchandise and products for common use and 

 implements and machines ; to furnish information as to the most profit- 

 able method of treating milk and the best markets ; to act in the markets 

 as an intermediary ; to constitute depositing warehouses in order to faci- 

 litate advances of funds ; and to organize the sale of products and produc- 

 tion by specialization, by improvements and by encouraging the founda- 

 tion of new co-operative societies. 



