38 ORGANIZATION IN DENMARK 



prizes to agricultural labourers for the efficient 

 management of small allotments ; to carry on 

 field experiments ; to organize parochial agricul- 

 tural societies ; to assist in the work of the 

 Government experts ; to arrange tours of inquiry, 

 whether in Denmark or in foreign countries, by 

 parties of Danish farmers ; to secure the im- 

 provement of live stock, especially cattle and 

 horses, or to watch over the milking qualities of 

 milch cows. Of these further societies, which 

 are also essentially co-operative in their action, 

 there are over 100, with a membership of 65,000. 

 They are in receipt of subventions from the State 

 to the extent of close on £10,000 a year. 



Yet another group tending to the progress 

 of agriculture is represented by associations 

 of agricultural labourers which, among other 

 objects, endeavour to promote the practice by 

 them of the smaller industries — such as the 

 keeping of fowls and the cultivation of fruit 

 and flowers — and aim also at the improvement 

 of home life, the encouragement of thrift, and 

 the advancement in other ways of the interests 

 of labourers. The attainment of these various 

 purposes is sought by the holding of meetings 

 and re-unions (which in themselves exercise a 

 wholesome influence on social life in the vil- 

 lages), by the giving of lectures on agricultural 



