30 CO-OPEKATION IN DANISH AGEICULTUKE 



produced. Hereby producers of good seed are guaranteed 

 a market, while consumers are guaranteed well-grown and 

 cleaned seed of superior strains. In November, 1916, the two 

 Societies bought a third farm of 98 acres near Taastrup for 

 comparative trials and for producing seed of improved strains. 

 In the district of Kingkobing in Jutland a Co-operative 

 Society on somewhat different lines has existed since 1885. 

 This Society, which has branches hi various towns, undertakes 

 the distribution of feeding stuffs to members ; but it does not 

 act as wholesale purchaser, beheving that wholesale merchants 

 and manufacturers perform that function satisfactorily. In 

 1886 an independent Societ}', with the same chairman, and with 

 about the same members, was formed for the distribution of 

 groceries, seed and manures in a similar manner, also leaving 

 the wholesale purchasing to the merchants. In 1914 it had a 

 turnover of £182,000. 



