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were connected with a co-operative factory, representing 723,357 

 pigs. But as 23,211 owners with 83,000 pigs had omitted to 

 send returns, the number of co-operators must have been larger 

 than the 63,000. In other words, probably quite one-third of 

 all holdings with pigs were in connection with co-operative 

 factories. If the co-operators be grouped according to the size 

 of their holdings, the following table will show, by percentages, 

 how co-operators are distributed among the different groups. 



Size of holdings. 



Less than 1| acre 

 Froml|rto 12 acres 

 ,, 12 ,, 37 ,, 

 ., 37 „ 73 „ 

 „ 73 „ 147 „ 

 „ 147 „ 589 „ 

 More than 589 ,, 



: Number of holdings in 



Percentage of co- the group as per- 



operators in the ceatage of total 



groups. ' number of holdings 



in the country. 



100 per cent. 



It is a very striking fact that the peasant proprietors were 

 the backbone of this form of co-operation with a good support 

 from the larger of the smallholders. Although holdings 

 between 37 and 147 acres formed barely 27 per cent, of all the 

 holdings in the country, their owners formed 45 per cent, of 

 all the co-operators. 



In 1909 ^ a total number of 1,467,822 pigs were kept on 

 188,335 holdings, of which, however, 6583 holdings with 17,695 

 pigs failed to send returns. 



* statist. Meddelelscr, 4 Roekke, 36 Bd. 4 Hoefte, "Deltagelscn i Landbrugcls 

 Andelsvirksomhed," 1911. 



