9G CO-OPEBATION IN DANISH AGRICULTUEE 



Owners of very large and of very small farms took little 

 part in this work., the former hkely enough because their herds 

 were large enough to enable them to keep first-class bulls for 

 their own use. 



Bull clubs have formed District Associations for mutual 

 help, the associations appointing advisers to assist clubs in 

 the purchase of bulls, to bring about a uniformity in the bye- 

 laws and in the work, to advise in the selection of breeding 

 cows, on the rearing of young stock, and to help in drawing 

 up the herd-books. These District Associations have formed 

 Central Associations, one for each of the three main provinces. 

 It is a proof of the free and individual development of this, as 

 of all similar co-operative work in Danish agriculture, that 

 these Associations have been formed in a different manner in 

 the different provinces. In Jutland most of the District 

 Associations are common to the Bull Clubs and the Control 

 Societies within the district, these two kinds of societies forming 

 one joint association for the district. The District Associations 

 form no central association ; but the Federation of Jutland 

 Agricultural Societies has a standing Committee on Animal 

 Industry, and this acts as the central committee for the 

 Associations of Bull Clubs and Control Societies, these electing 

 one member on the Committee. In Sealand the District 

 Associations, called Cattle Breeding Societies, form a Federa- 

 tion of Sealand Cattle Breeding Societies which works in 

 intimate co-operation with the Federated Sealand Agricultural 

 Societies. The Federation of C.B.S. and the standing Com- 

 mittee on Animal Industry of the Federated Agricultural 

 Societies jointly elect the chairman of the Central Committee 

 on Animal Industry. In Funen the Association of Bull Clubs 

 and Control Societies is one of the members of the Federation 

 of Funen Agricultural Societies, the chairman of the Association 

 being a member of the board of the Federation. 



HORSE BREEDING SOCIETIES. 



Although horse breeding in Denmark has had its ups and 

 downs, it has never known a period of depression similar to 

 that experienced in cattle breeding. The Danish horse, which 



