PIGS AND PIG FACTORIES 



As every farmer knows, skim milk means pigs. There- 

 fore the reader of this book will not be surprised to 

 learn that the number of pigs in Denmark has in- 

 creased enormously during what I may call the co- 

 operative period. Thus in 1881 there were 527,400 

 pigs in the country, while in 1909, that is twenty-eight 

 years later, the number of these animals was no less 

 than 1,466,800, or in other words, two and three- 

 quarter times as many as existed in 1881. These 

 pigs were reared on 188,000 separate holdings. In 

 addition to twenty private bacon factories which ex- 

 port bacon, and in 1905 slaughtered some half million 

 of pigs, there were in Denmark in 1909, thirty-four 

 co-operative bacon factories, some of which also deal 

 with cattle. I append a table showing the rise in the 

 number of factories between 1888 and 1909, and of 

 the number of pigs and cattle killed therein : 



