100 CO-OPEEATION IN DANISH AGEICULTUKE 



is still in existence. Another society was formed in 1886 in 

 South Sealand for breeding carriage and riding horses. But 

 these Societies, although exercising a healthy influence in their 

 separate districts, had no effect outside them. It was from 

 Jutland that the impulse came which spread over the whole 

 country and brought about the modern development in Danish 

 horse breeding. The Federation of Jutland Agricultural 

 Societies, at its annual meeting in 1886, empowered its com- 

 mittee on animal industry to take in hand the formation of 

 Horse Breeding Societies. The committee delegated two of 

 its members, a landowner named Mourier-Petersen, with great 

 knowledge of and interest in the Jutland horse, and its adviser 

 in horse-breeding, J. Jensen, who two years afterwards was 

 appointed by the State as Live Stock Commissioner on Horse 

 Breeding, to draw up a set of bye-laws for such societies. 

 These two men did not agree on the kind of society to be aimed 

 at, inasmuch as the first wanted a large society for the whole 

 of Jutland, while the latter, guided by the bye-laws which 

 Friis had drawn up for the first Co-operative Bull Club in Sea- 

 land, wanted a number of small co-operative societies. The 

 first plan was tried in 1887, but did not meet with sufficient 

 support from the farmers. Early in the same year, at the 

 suggestion of Jensen, a local society was formed near Aarhus 

 for the purpose of selecting the best mares and stallions from 

 the stock of the members, and buying mares and, if need be, 

 stalHons. There were at the time three superior staUions 

 available in the district. Each member was to have at least 

 one approved brood mare, these were to be served only by the 

 approved stalHons, and were not to be sold except with the 

 consent of the committee, which should have the first offer 

 of any promising offspring. Members were to pay an annual 

 contribution and be severally and jointly responsible for any 

 loan the society might raise. The idea was to form a stud 

 by voluntary co-operation between the many small owners 

 of good mares. The Society, called '* Jyden " (whereby is 

 meant the Jutland horse), succeeded well, and gave rise to the 

 many Horse Breeding Societies which have since been formed 

 all over the country. 



A few months after tlie formation of this society came 



