THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT 



Table II. — Number of co-operative societies as compared to the population 

 and the comniunes in each district 



(i) In these calculations the total number of co-operative societies, as given in the list in 

 the yearbook, is taken into account. 



§ 2. The number of members. 



Of 7,317 co-operative societies of consumption, production and labour, 

 building and agriculture, to which the league addressed itself, only 5,036 

 or about 70 per cent, supplied the desired data. Moreover the forms were 

 not completely filled up, the number of members being omitted on some, and 

 the amount of business, the capital, the reserve fund, etc. on others. 



As regards the members we compare in the following table the number 

 of them in the various kinds of co-operative societies in 191 5 a.nd in 1910 : 



