THE COWS OF DENMARK.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1006, 22 December 1910, Page 10

THE COWS OF DENMARK.

i' 3, ■ INTERESTING STATISTICS,

r, :;;. ; The Statistical Bureau-gives ->sQme facts i. which throw an interesting light' on,tho j..;,.. Danish dairy industry.. There are-voxr herds, . aggregating 1,282,000 'cows,|V. :>of these-155,000 herds, with 1,060,000,-cows' [: : : supply the co-operative creameries;. while i 1 f 12,0.00 herds with 98,000. cows supply tho '-individual creameries; 13,000 .herds witli »\./f cows do not supply any creamery, [• - : r and .no information is obtained from 2 ?r;.v ' to 3,000. herds with 10,000 cows, • ' Thus, .'of • 100 cows in Denmark; 83 supfv : • p!>" the co-operative and 9 the,individual K . creameries, so' .that over ' nine-tentlis of t / the cows' milk goes to creameries. - i/Of- the 23)000 cows -found, within city" -and village limits, less thaii half supply f: •- the : creameries, but .besides . these.l2,ooo !,. • cows, there are 90,000 in the country whoso 1 l ' .milk does.not go to the creameries. Part ; of the! milk from these cows is made up jv-y. in private dairies or "estate" creameries, i\ . . . tut most of it is sold to the cities, ; : While only 8 per cent of the cows in >*the - whole country ; do not supply the ? creameries,- 40-per cent of those : in the . Copenhagen district and 23 per cent in r • : the adjoiuirig district provide milk for I'' direct consumption, while, in outlying disr . tricts tho\]3cr cent not delivered to [. creameries is, only two or three. S Of the 3000 cows on tho small lots (up !\ ; to li acrcs), two-thirds provide milk to ; ■ co-operative creameries. On the other farms, up to 140 acres, nine-tenths co-operative creameries. On the. farms' between 1-40 and 280.acres, four-lifths; on i . farms from 280 to 560 acres, three-fifths; ; aiid abbve that,-only .two-fifths. The inv. dividual creameries get their milk chiefly ], from-the'lurge farms, . v :