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is normally associated with the marketing of eggs in the 

 Middle West, and has increased very materially the price 

 which the producer receives. It would appear, in view 

 of the fact that the creamery seems a logical and natural 

 agency for the handling of eggs to good advantage, that 

 this method, with modifications, is adaptable to a wide 

 range of conditions, and that many creameries could 

 well afford to make eggs as well as butter one of the prod- 

 ucts which they handle. Wherever this method is adopted 

 it should mean a most acceptable increase in the price 

 received by the farmer for his eggs, and this without any 

 increase in cost to the consumer." 



In December, 1911, according to Mr. Slocum, there 

 were fourteen creameries that were handling eggs direct 

 from the farmer along the general lines already described. 

 Seven more creameries and egg dealers expected to take 

 up the handling of eggs in a similar manner at that time, 

 and a general interest was awakened in the movement by 

 the publication of the bulletin by the Department of 

 Agriculture. 



COOPERATION IN THE HANDLING OF EGGS IN OTHER 

 COUNTRIES 



In Denmark there is a very elaborate and extensive 

 system of cooperation in use in the marketing of eggs. 

 The Danish Farmers and Cooperative Egg Export Asso- 

 ciation was organized in 1895, and in 1909 it included five 

 hundred egg-collecting circles, aggregating 43,000 mem- 

 bers. This association markets poultry as well as eggs. 

 Its central office is in Copenhagen. In addition, there 

 are ten other packing plants. The members pay an entry 



