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islands. The opposite was the case with the Control Societies. 

 In 1909 there were the following numbers of herds and of cows 

 attached to Control Societies : — 



Every tenth island farmer with one quarter of the total number 

 of cows on the islands had joined a Control Society, while of 

 Jutland farmers not quite one in twenty with only one- eighth 

 of the cows had done so. In 1914 very nearly 16,000 herds, 

 which is about equivalent to 16,000 farmers, had joined. The 

 growth of these Societies has been well maintained to the present 

 day. 



Most of the co-operative undertakings described in previous 

 chapters had their main support from the peasant farmers on 

 middle-sized farms, with the exception of horse-breeding 

 societies, which were well supported also by the large land- 

 owners. The Control Societies found their chief supporters, 

 on the whole, among the owners of the largest herds. The 

 following table deals with holdings in country districts only. 



In Control Societies there were (1909) : 



