54 COOPEKATION IN DANISH AGKICULTURE 



in England in 1909, under sect. 62 of the Trade Marks Act, 

 1905, in the name of the Danish Board of Agriculture, and 

 the mark for butter was similarly registered in 1912. The Law 

 of 1906 has since been superseded by a Law of 12th April, 1911, 

 *' On the Trade in Butter and Foreign Agricultural Produce." 

 The provisions dealing with the mark for butter are contained 

 in sects. 4 and 6, according to which — 



Sect. 4. — " Danish butter shall not be exported from this 

 country unless it is made in a dairy, which has been accepted 

 for control (see sect. 9), from cream or milk which has been 

 pasteurised (heated to at least 80° C. [176° F.]), and at the place 

 of manufacture has been marked with the marking prescribed 

 in Sect. 6. . . . 



Sect. 6. — " A common mark applicable to the whole countrj^ 

 shall be prescribed by Eoyal Decree, and it shall be applied 

 at the place of manufacture ... to all butter containing no 

 more than 10 per cent, of water, made at dairies accepted for 

 control, from cream or milk which has been pasteurised (heated 

 to 80° C). This mark shall be known as the ' Lur-Brand.' 



" The common mark shall be appHed both to the packing 

 and to paper labels which shall be placed on the butter itself, 

 etc. ..." 



The Butter Mark Society having accomplished all it was 

 intended to do and even much more than anybody had expected 

 it to do, ceased to exist, and in March, 1915, its name was re- 

 moved from the list of DaniA trading firms. A common mark 

 with a similar object to that of the Danish Butter Mark has 

 since been adopted in Sweden, Finland, and Ireland. 



The co-operation of Co-operative Dairy Societies for other 

 purposes, such as the sale of butter or the purchase of various 

 requirements, is dealt with in subsequent chapters. 



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