THE EGG EXPORT ASSOCIATION 



Another very interesting society which I visited in 

 Copenhagen is the Danish Farmers' Co-operative 

 Egg Export Association. 



Eggs in Denmark, I may observe, receive an 

 individual attention which is lacking to them in this 

 country. Thus I noted with interest that the first 

 I chanced to eat for breakfast in Copenhagen bore 

 the distinguishing number of 72,334. To what this 

 enumeration referred I cannot say, but I may add 

 that it was a good Ggg. 



This Egg Export Association numbers 45,000 

 members, belonging to 550 local societies which 

 supply the eggs. Every Ggg is stamped with the 

 society's and the member's number, so that if neces- 

 sary it can be traced back to the fowl that laid it. 

 If by chance an individual member of one of these 

 societies should supply a bad Ggg, he is hunted down 

 and fined 5 kroner (5s. 6Jd.) whether the fault be his 

 or that of the fowl. For in this matter, under a kind 

 of employers' liability arrangement, a man is held to 

 be responsible for the misbehaviour of his hen. Ten 

 million score of eggs pass through the hands of this 

 society in the course of a year. This sounds a great 

 number one scarcely to be realised by the human 

 mind. It bewilders, as do the distances that, according 

 to astronomers, lie between the earth and the remoter 

 suns. However, it may be taken for granted, unless 

 I made a mistake of an " o " in my notes. 



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