200 RURAL DENMARK 



1909 the value of these exported eggs had in- 

 creased fourfold, namely, from about 7,000,000 kroner 

 (,387,916) to about 25,000,000 kroner (^1,385, 416), 

 and the number of hens in the country from over 

 5,000,000 to over 11,000,000. About a third of this 

 total exportation is conducted by the co-operative 

 societies, but the remainder, so far as I can gather, 

 is managed much on the same lines, since in such 

 matters, as in others, these co-operative societies have 

 a controlling influence on the market. 



