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account, apart from any political considera- 

 tions. The profits gained by the farmers were 

 so much more substantial than they had been 

 before that there was every inducement to start 

 more and more co-operative factories, so that 

 the growth of the movement became almost 

 phenomenal, as the following table will show : — 



In addition to these twenty-seven co-operative 

 bacon factories, which have a total membership 

 of G5,800, there are also in Denmark twenty- 

 four private factories. 



In the organization of the co-operative fac- 



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