32 AGRICULTURAL ORGANISATION 



In addition to these co-operative bacon factories there are 

 about twenty private ones working for exportation, and 

 slaughtering 500,000 pigs in the year. 



Co-operative societies for purchase are of the greater 

 importance in Denmark on account of the necessity for 

 importing large quantities of grain and feeding stuffs for 

 livestock, the home supplies being wholly inadequate. 

 In 1909 the total purchases of the fifteen societies specially 

 established for this purpose (apart from what is done in the 

 same direction by other societies) amounted to £1,736,000, 

 of which sum about £1,500,000 was for grain and feeding 

 stuffs, the remainder being for seeds and chemical manures. 



Egg-export from Denmark is in the hands mainly of two 

 large federations — the Danish Co-operative Society for the 

 Export of Eggs, established in 1895, and the Esbjerg Butter 

 Packing Company, which began to export eggs in 1899 — 

 and seven co-operative bacon-curing factories. The system 

 adopted for obtaining the eggs is based on the organisation 

 of collecting centres, of which the Egg-Export Society has 

 550, with a membership of 43,000, the business done by 

 this one society alone in 1909 amounting to £253,000. The 

 Esbjerg Company has 300 collecting centres. The total 

 value of the eggs exported from Denmark in 1909 was 

 £505.000. 



The Control Societies keep an account, in the case of each 

 cow registered, of (1) milk yield, (2) proportion of butter-fat 

 in the milk, and (3) the relation between yield and fodder, 

 thus giving the farmer valuable information as to the stock 

 specially suitable for breeding. They were first established 

 in Denmark in 1895. The number of cows registered in 

 1909 was 206,800. Various forms of agricultural insurance 

 — including fire, storm, hail and live-stock insurance — have 

 also been developed. 



Holland. 



" Marvellous " is the phrase applied to the advance of 

 agricultural organisation in Holland. 



For the actual beginnings of the movement there we have 



