FARMING CO-OPERATION IN DENMARK.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 386, 12 August 1911, Page 7

FARMING CO-OPERATION IN DENMARK.

Eggs, Butter and Bacon

If you ask how the Danish farmers manage to keep pace with our in creasing appetite for Daivsh egg.;, butter, and bacon, the answer is—they co-operate. The butter which is exported is made in their co operative dairies. The pigs are sir in in their co-operative slaughterhouse; and the Danes are not a little proud of the process—on: traveller complains that, during h's stay in Denmark, he was alv. ays being asked to come and see a, pig killed ! The eggs are exported by cooperative export societies. If a Dane has only one egg, he can export it—always provided it he a good egg. No mistake must be mad.' a' on that ; before the eggs arc packed fo export, down to the co operative factory on the shore, thay are hel.l ovee a basin, filled with electric li lit when all defects can be detected with the naked eye. It is n > u w for au old egg to pose as a young on; then. Each egg is marked with the owner's number and the number of his dis trict ; the owners of ha 1 cvg; are fined. No less than 18,000 Danes belong to this one society. Here, too, butter is packed for" the English market. As to the part of the community which is responsible for the farm produce, it is the wonvn who are the farmers. When the husbands arc at home from their seafaring, it is they who tend the children ml do the housework ; and very jo'ly these lady agriculturists look, in their picturesque dress, as on? meets them driving the cows home at milking time. Those we met had the expression one has learnt to look for in the right kind of farmer —shrewd, humorous, and kindly.—"Among the Danes," by F. M. Butlin.