ON AGRICULTURE TO DENMARK 



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added materially to their efficiency as agriculturists, and their social 

 status as citizens. 



The Creamery of Trifolium 

 As an example of the working of a Danish co-operative 

 creamery, the great creamery of Trifolium, situated near Haslev in 

 the south of the province of Zeeland, may serve, all the creameries 

 being conducted on very similar lines. Trifolium differs from most 

 others in Denmark inasnuich as its membership is entirely made 

 up of considerable estate owners having very large herds of cows. 

 The milk of something between 7000 and 8000 cows is daily 



EXTERIOR : TRIFOLIUM DAIRY, NEAR HASLEV 



handled and manufactured. The operations are two-fold, butter- 

 making and cheese-making. This necessitates very extensive and 

 expensively equipped premises, costing, we were informed, some- 

 thing like £40,000 sterling. About three-fourths of the total milk 

 brought to the creamery is separated and the cream manufactured 

 into butter, the remaining fourth being used to mix with separated 

 milk for the manufacture of cheese. There are forty different kinds 

 of cheese made, some of skim milk, others with varying quantities 

 of whole milk added of from 20 per cent, to 90 per cent. The skim 

 milk cheeses sell at 3d. to 4d. per Danish pound, and the other 

 grades at from 6d. to 9d. per pound.^ Cream cheeses are also now 

 being made, and are named " Alexandras," in compliment to our 

 Queen, who visited the creamery a short time ago. A large pro- 

 portion of the cheese made at Trifolium is exported to Germany 



1 The Danish pound = 1-1023 lbs, avoirdupois : 100 Danish pounds = 110-23 

 lbs. avoirdupois. 



