DANISH EGG SOCIETIES 



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and there are instructors who give advice on these 

 subjects to the Danish farmers, whenever desired. 

 Another highly successful branch of co-opera- 

 tive agriculture in Denmark is represented by 

 the egg industry. Here the chief organization 

 is that of the Dansk Andels Aeg-export, which 

 was founded in 1895, and now constitutes the 

 central body of a large number of local societies 

 in all parts of Denmark. The members of these 

 societies pledge themselves to deliver none but 

 freshly-laid eggs, all that are sent in being so 

 marked that the farmer supplying any single 

 one of them can be readily traced, while a 

 penalty of 5s. G<7. is imposed for every bad egg 

 received after a warning has been given. The 

 local societies remit the eggs to the central 

 organization, which arranges for grading, pack- 

 ing, and sale, and fixes the price per lb. to be 

 given to the farmers, less cost of collection and 

 other expenses. Membership of the local socie- 

 ties is generally obtained in return for an en- 

 trance fee of sixpence. So profitable has the 

 business become that the Danes send their own 

 eggs to Great Britain, and import eggs from 

 Russia for home consumption, the difference 

 between the price they get for the former and 

 the amount they pay for the latter representing 

 by the end of the year a fairly substantial sum. 



