The Report on the working of the co-operative movement in Mysore for the year 1917-18, just issued, contains, as usual, some matters of interest to co-operators outside the State as well as to those within it. Those who have learnt to see in Mysore rapid increase in the number of societies year after year will be somewhat disappointed this time; for, compared with the previous year, the increase in the number of societies in the year under report is not a striking feature. As a result of new registration, the number of societies newly brought into being was 141. As against this, however, must be set down the cancellation of registration of some 18 societies found to be too unfit to be allowed to exist. Owing to increased caution in the registration of societies and what appears to be the very necessary process of pruning, the net increase in the number of societies in the year under report was only 123 as against 179 in 1916-17.
