3 o ORGANIZATION IN DENMARK 



holdings, had further strengthened the power 

 of the agricultural community to benefit from 

 the opportunities opening out to them. 



The immediate and most striking outcome of 

 these various conditions was a resort to co- 

 operative dairies, so that the agricultural classes 

 could get a maximum of possible benefit for 

 themselves. The first co-operative dairy in 

 Denmark was opened in West Jutland in 1882. 

 Others followed, and to such an extent has the 

 movement spread that to-day a co-operative 

 dairy is to be found in almost every parish. 

 There are now no fewer than 1,050 of such 

 dairies in Denmark, with 148,000 members, 

 owning 750,000 cows out of a total of 1,067,000 

 milch cows in the country. In 1902 Denmark 

 exported, mainly to Great Britain, 168,000,000 

 lbs. of butter, 135,000,000 lbs. of this total 

 representing home produce, and the remaining 

 33,000,000 lbs. butter received from Sweden 

 and Russia. The total value of our imports of 

 butter from Denmark in 1902 was £9,302,000, 

 as compared with £8,950,000 in 1901, and 

 £8,029,000 in 1900. The amount invested in 

 the erection and equipment of the dairies is 

 over £1,500,000. The practice usually adopted 

 is for about 150 farmers in a particular district 

 to raise, say, £1,200 by subscribing £8 each, this 



