THE ACTl\aTY OF THE ROYAI, SOCIETY II 



forty goats of three or four different races, thus determining the content 

 of fatty substances in relation to race and to feeding. 



One of the commission's principal tasks is to give breeders scientific 

 ideas as to the management of their animals, especially by means of newspa- 

 per articles and lectures. With this object the society has puVjhshed a 

 pamphlet entitled " Goat-breeding and Goat-keeping". It has also success 

 fully encouraged a larger opening of zootechnical exhibitions to goats, and 

 has formed offices for the sale and purchase of the animals which bring 

 buyers and sellers together. The usefulness of the work of these offices 

 has been recognized, and the number of sales and purchases effected by their 

 means increases annually. The society now intends to institute prizes for 

 good goat-stables, the importance of which is not yet fiilly understood by 

 all the farmers. 



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The Society- of Danish Agriciilture also exercices a useful acti\'ity in the 

 matter of milk production. It here directs its attention especially to the 

 matter of technical education for which it receives a subsidy from the State. 

 This amounted in 1915-1916 to 25,000 crowns, which sum was divided among 

 116 persons desirous of learning the methods of this industry or improving 

 their knowledge thereof by means of bursaries allowing them to study in se- 

 lected dairies inspected by the society, or to make short educational tours. 

 The society thus limits its action to the choice of model dairies, iii connec- 

 tion with which the biirsaries are instituted ; to the reception of applications 

 from candidates and the examination of the latter, in order to discover whe- 

 ther they have the necessary' aptitudes ; to the distribution of subsidies ; 

 and to the superintendence of the progress made by bursars. 



However the society has also undertaken the publication of a technical 

 periodical, " Danske Mejerier", which has attained to a large circulation. 

 Further on 28 January 1916 a meeting was held * n the society's premises, 

 which was attended b3- representati\'es of the society, the federation of 

 co-operative dairies, the association of milk producers and the laboratory for 

 testing milk. A proposal for the grant of an adequate State subsid}' has 

 been approved by the Ministry of Agriculture and is now before Parlia- 

 ment. 



The committee instituted by the society for the improvement of land 

 by drainage and irrigation should also be noticed. It has a technico-eco- 

 nomic and a juridico-economic .section. The latter brought forward in 191 5 

 three proposals for the modification of the law as to public waters, and 

 these have been approved by the society, and transmitted to the competent 

 ministry in order that proposals relative to them may be made in the 

 Chamber. 



A form of the society's activity in the interests of agriculture is its ma- 

 nagement on behalf of the State of a service of consultation. It nominates 

 the official of this service, whom the State nuist approve, and contribvites 

 to its costs. An office of consultation has been founded in the current year 



