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The co-operative movement in Russia; its history, significance and character . KUIT SOCIETY IN Taurida. The association also leases and builds works, mills,makes advances on the security of the crops, and alsoengages in the sale of corn, flax, hemp, eggs, cotton, hay,leather, live stock, vegetables, tar, tui-pciitine, coal, A-c The management of the cicdit and of the Icjaii .i\\e an outsider; soniotitiies one of the members of theBoard undertakes this oflic-e. The Council is the organ ofcontrol. The society is also controlled by a GovernmentInspector of the Small Credit Department, and in the
The co-operative movement in Russia; its history, significance and character . KUIT SOCIETY IN Taurida. The association also leases and builds works, mills,makes advances on the security of the crops, and alsoengages in the sale of corn, flax, hemp, eggs, cotton, hay,leather, live stock, vegetables, tar, tui-pciitine, coal, A-c The management of the cicdit and of the Icjaii .i\\e an outsider; soniotitiies one of the members of theBoard undertakes this oflic-e. The Council is the organ ofcontrol. The society is also controlled by a GovernmentInspector of the Small Credit Department, and in the caseof the society being affiliated to some union of creditassociations, it is sometimes also controlled by the unioninstructor. The society usually covers the volost,* although veryoiten it embraces a larger area. -^rnrnw. Thk House of a Credit Society in the Province of Orel. Ordinarily a society serves some 1,000 or 2,000 house-holds; some, however, cover much larger ground. This,however, presents great drawbacks, as in the case of a toolarge area it is impossible for the society to know itsmembers and their financial position. Unfortunately,owing to lack of instructors, societies, instead of stickingto their area and forming new societies outside of it, keep* Volost = provincial district. CO-OPERATION IN RUSSIA. 57 on increasing their membersip in districts lying outsidetheir volost. Most of the members of the credit associations aredrawn from the peasant smallholders, owning from twoto five dessiatines of land (54 to 135 acres), two or fourhorses, some cows, poultry, Ac, on a similar scale. Agood many societies count a large number of members whohave only one horse, and sometimes not even that. Agri-cultural labourers, however, are not to be found in theciedit societies, as they are precluded by the
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