CO-OPERATIVE SLAUGHTER-HOUSES 69 



consist of the district assistant of the Live Stock Commissioner 

 and two members elected by the Co-operative Bacon Factories 

 in the district. The experimental stations are under the 

 supervision of a Committee to which the Union of Co-operative 

 Factories elects two mehabers, and the Government Experi- 

 mental Station in Copenhagen a third member. 



The assistance of the Co-operative Bacon Factories and of 

 their Union has several times been sought and readily obtained 

 by the Minister of Agriculture, and recent legislation has been 

 thereby very much facihtated. By a Royal Decree of 30th 

 August, 1906, it was provided that all slightly salted pork, 

 including bacon, intended for export, should, when exported 

 from Denmark, bear a mark having some resemblance to the 

 Lur Brand for butter described in the previous chapter. The 

 mark is as shown in the illustration. 



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By the Law of 27th May, 1908, on the Control of the Export 

 of Meat,i all slaughter-houses, where animals are slaughtered 

 for export, must be registered under a number. This number 

 is to take the place of 00 in the above mark. The stamping 

 or marking of the meat takes place after a thorough veterinary 

 examination of the pigs before slaughter, and of the carcase 

 and all the organs after slaughter ; both this examination 

 and the marking is done by veterinary surgeons appointed by 

 the Minister of Agriculture, one or more at each slaughter-house. 

 The above mark in red is used only for carcases and offal of 

 pigs of Class LA. and " pigs of Class LA. shall comprise only 

 such pigs of Class I. (i.e. the best class) which do not suffer 

 from rhachitis, and in which or in the organs of which no trace 



^ An English translation of this Law and the Regulations and Instructions 

 issued concerning the Control of the Export of Meat from Denmark, may be 

 had by applying to Harald Faber, the Danish Agricultural Commissioner, 7, 

 Idol Lane, London, E.C.3. 



