The payment for the milk to the members of the co- 

 operative creameries is usually made by calculating the 

 full value for the whole milk delivered and deducting the 

 value of skimmed and buttermilk returned. This value 

 is agreed upon at the general meeting. The statements 

 are made up weekly and the payments are made monthly. 

 As a rule, rather a large amount is left over at the end of 

 the financial year, and this "surplus" is distributed ac- 

 cording to the whole milk delivered. This surplus averages 

 for the whole country about 15 per cent, of the payments 

 made to the suppliers. The total working expenses — 

 besides milk hauHng — averaged (1912) 8.89 kr. per 1,000 

 kg., or $1.08 yer 1,000 'pounds; the milk hauling, 3.43 kr. 

 per 1,000 kg., or $0.42 per 1,000 pounds. There are, on an 

 average, 156 suppliers and 956 cows per co-operative cream- 

 ery, and the cows average 2,520 kg., 5,555.65 pounds 

 milk (against 2,627 kg., 5,791.54 pounds, in 1911) de- 

 livered to the creamery. It took 25.5 pounds of milk 

 to make 1 pound of butter, and the whole milk netted 

 (in 1912) 9.7 ore per kg., or $0,012 per pound. The salaries 

 averaged for the same year 1.60 kr,, or $0,194 V^^ 1,000 

 pounds; the fuel, 1.04 kr., or $0,126 per 1,000 pounds (against 

 0.86 kr., or $0,104 per 1,000 pounds, for 1911), and the 

 maintenance of buildings and inventory as well as renewals, 

 0.59 kr., or $0.07 per 1,000 pounds; all per 1,000 kg. milk. 



The co-operative creameries handled, on an average, 

 fully 2.5 million kg., 5,511,555 pounds, milk annually. The 

 fire insurance averages about 30,000 kr., $8,040, and the 

 debts fully 15,000 kr., $4,020, per creamery. 



Butter is mainly produced, but some cheese is also made 

 either from skimmed milk or from mixtures of skimmed 

 milk and whole milk (10, 15, 25 and 40 per cent., seldom 

 more, whole milk), yet the production is hardly much more 

 than 15 million kg., 33,069,330 pounds, annually. There 

 is also some cheese made from pasteurized milk and, at 

 times, some casein. There is one milk-condensing factory, 

 erected in 1907 in Nakskov. 



^Yhile the butter export in the period 1865-69 averaged 

 about 5 million kg., 11,023,110 pounds, it was in 1880-84 



