ON AGRICULTURE TO DENMARK 45 



for the roots were grown for the purpose of feeding stock, and 

 the stock of Denmark consists mainly of cows. The development 

 of the dairy trade, however, will be more clearly seen by an 

 examination of the imports and exports of butter. These are some 

 of the figures : — 



Imports. Exports. Excess of Exports 



over Imports. 



1882, 69,149 cwts. 291,382 cwts. 222,233 cwts. 

 1896, 323,492 „ 1,210,568 „ 887,076 „ 

 1903, 415,000 „ 1,948,000 „ 1,533,000 „ 



In 1903 there were 1057 co-operative creameries in all, with a 

 membership of 150,000, handling milk weighing 42,500,000 cwts., 

 drawn from 750,000 cows, more than two-thirds of all the cows in 

 Denmark. In that year the money value of Denmark's export of 

 butter produced in the country was £8,400,000, and the output of 

 the co-operative creameries, which of course is difterent from the 

 export, also amounted to £8,400,000. The following figures will 

 give some idea of the development of the co-operative creameries. 

 They represent the annual output. 



It should be mentioned that there has been an improvement in 

 the quality as well as an increase in the quantity of butter produced 

 by the co-operative creameries. At the Royal Danish Agricultural 

 Society Show at Odense in 1900 the co-operative dairies secured 

 all the 46 silver medals and 202 out of 210 bronze medals, which 

 speaks volumes for the quality of the butter produced by the 

 co-operative dairies. 



These co-operative dairies, which play such an important part 

 in Denmark's trade, form in numy cases federations for the express 

 purpose of disposing more profitably of their butter. There are 

 eight such federations in Denmark : the Farmers of Denmark 

 Butter Export Association, which was started in 1888, and is 

 composed of the members of eighty-four creameries ; the South 

 Fyen Farmers Butter Export Society, founded in 1895, and com- 

 posed of twenty-five creameries ; the Danish Co-operative Butter 

 Factories Association, dating from the same year, with a member- 

 ship of twenty affiliated creameries ; the Mid-Jutland Butter Export 

 Society, started in 1898 by tlie union of ten creameries; and the 

 Aalborg Counties Co-operative Butter Export Society, being the 

 union of eight creameries. Besides these, there are two federations 

 at Viboi^ and one at Rinkobing. 



Bacon-Curing Factories 



The pig-rearing and bacon-curing industry may be said to be 

 the result of the development of dairying. Pigs were reared to 

 get rid of the refuse of the dairy profitably, and they are fed, in 



