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It will be noticed that the percentages increase from group 

 to group up to the group of the largest estates. 



The Control Societies, alone or in conjunction with the Bull 

 Clubs or Cattle Breeding Societies, have formed local and 

 provincial Associations or Federations. In Funen there is one 

 large Association of Bull Clubs and Control Societies, the 

 chairman of which is a member of the Committee of the 

 Federated Funen Agricultural Societies. The Federated Sea- 

 land Control Societies are affihated to the Federated Sealand 

 Agricultural Societies, and their (Chairman is elected by the 

 committee of the Federated Sealand Agricultural Societies. 

 The Control Societies in Bornholm have their own association. 

 In Lolland-Falster the Federated Agricultural Societies appoint 

 a Committee on Cattle Breeding and Control Societies, which 

 committee acts as joint central committee for the two kinds 

 of societies. In Jutland there are eighteen associations each 

 comprising all the societies of the two kinds within their 

 district. An Agricultural Eecord Committee appointed by 

 the Federation of Jutland Agricultural Societies is the chief 

 authority of the Jutland Control Societies ; this committee 

 receives, revises and pubUshes the annual reports from the 

 individual societies and convenes an annual meeting of the 

 chairmen and assistants. 



-->The above-named Association of Cattle Breeding and Control 

 Societies in Funen has drafted a set of model bye-laws for the 

 affiliated control societies. According to these members are 

 bound for a period of three years, and must give six months' 

 notice if they wish to withdraw at the end of the period. They 

 are severally and jointly hable for the society's debt. Members 

 undertake : — 



(a) To have the milk of each milch-cow controlled at least 

 once a month according to the rules of the Association ; 



(h) To have the fodder weighed, and to calculate it by 

 food-units according to the rules of the Association ; 



(c) To have the cows branded with a current number on the 

 outside of the right horn ; 



(d) To have the ears of the calves marked with the number 

 of the dam ; 



(e) To keep a careful record of service and calving ; 



