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jointly and severally responsible for the payment 

 of the money to which any one of them may 

 become entitled under the terms of his policy. 

 Some of these societies have up to 7,000 

 members, and in one instance, at least, animals 

 are insured in a single society to the amount of 

 £1,300,000. 



Almost every branch of the agricultural in- 

 dustry is thus represented in Denmark by its 

 separate co-operative organization. Indeed, it 

 may safely be said that whenever a want arises 

 which may be supplied by combination, or when- 

 ever there is any possibility of mutual interests 

 being promoted, the Danish farmers are always 

 ready to join with one another in a combined 

 effort to secure what they desire. As a rule 

 each particular co-operative society works on 

 independent lines, for its own special object, so 

 that one farmer may be a member of many 

 different organizations, according to the particular 

 branches of agriculture in which he is interested. 

 It is no unusual occurrence for a Danish farmer 

 to belong to ten local co-operative societies, be- 

 sides other bodies formed for the advancement 

 of the agricultural interests of the country. The 

 general network is completed by a number of 

 agricultural associations whose function it is to 

 arrange for the holding of shows : to distribute 



