THE BRORUP CO-OPERATIVE DAIRY n 



expected to calve, the weight of milk it was yielding, 

 which is averaged every other week, the amount of cake 

 it received, and other particulars. Once a fortnight a 

 highly educated, expert woman, who is hired co-opera- 

 tively, visits these cows and tests the milk of each of 

 them to determine the amount of butter-fat it contains. 

 When this is ascertained she directs the exact weight 

 of cake each beast is to have, the general rule being 

 that the more milk a cow gives the more cake is 

 fed to it. At the time of my visit (September), in 

 addition to chaff and the food they gathered on the 

 field, these particular cows were receiving an average 

 of from i to 2 lbs. Danish of various sorts of cake. 

 In winter they get much more up to 8 lbs. a 

 day. 



All the milking on this farm is done by a machine, 

 the cows being afterwards u stripped " (that is, milked 

 dry) by hand. Our guide told me that they were well 

 satisfied with the working of this machine, which had 

 been in use there for two years. 



Next to the cowhouse is a piggery containing a 

 number of pigs and countless flies. I noticed these 

 flies in almost all the Danish piggeries. Doubtless 

 their unwelcome presence is due to the local habit of 

 keeping swine, not in open styes or yards as we do, 

 but in a low-roofed building, sometimes not too well 

 ventilated. Certainly the pig is a very adaptable 

 animal. Here most of us consider that the more air it 

 gets the better it thrives, but in Denmark it flourishes 

 exceedingly under quite different conditions. 



In another part of the square stands a great barn, 

 then filled with the harvest of unthrashed grain. It is 

 not common to see stacks in Denmark, most of the 

 corn being stored in such barns. Also we saw a three 



