THE BRORUP CO-OPERATIVE DAIRY 



Between Esbjerg and Bramminge, a little town 

 to the east, the land, which is wide and flat, struck 

 me as poor in quality. For the most part it is under 

 grass, mixed with strips of arable, on some of which 

 mangolds are grown. The farms vary in size from 

 little holdings up to about 200 acres, which would 

 include a proportion of moorland ; perhaps an average 

 property may contain about 100 acres. Many churches 

 and buildings are to be seen, the latter good and often 

 thatched, some of the old barns being very large. 



At Bramminge I visited a co-operative dairy 

 which deals with 6000 lbs. Danish of milk a day. 

 Here I should explain that the Danish pound or 

 half kilo weighs roughly a tenth more than our 

 English pound. This dairy I will not stop to 

 describe, as later in the day I saw one that was 

 larger at Brorup. 



The Brorup Andelswejeri, or Co-operative Dairy, 

 is a long, whitewashed building with a tall factory 

 chimney and raised stoep or verandah bordering on ^ 

 the roadway, on to which the milk-cans are delivered 

 from the carts. At the moment of my arrival one 

 of the carts was in course of being loaded up with 

 empty cans for return to the subscribers. These 

 cans, although smaller, are similar in shape to those 

 we use in England. The factory owns eighteen such 

 carts, but the horses that draw them are hired. 



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