movement which united the milk-suppliers, large as well 

 as small, and made it possible to produce large and uniform 

 lines of butter. 



The appointment of dairy counselors who, by lectures 

 and inspections of the creameries and by acting as judges 

 at exhibitions, have done, and surely continue to do, a great 

 educational work, is also a factor of importance. Further- 

 more, the expositions where the products are scored by 

 the merchants, the counselors and the buttermakers jointly 

 are also of great educational value. We have essentially 

 three kinds of exhibitions, namely: — 



1. The pail shows of which each locality arranges 6 to 9 

 annually. The butter is scored about fourteen days old 

 and is ordered in without previous notice (surprise tests). 

 The written judgment is returned to the creamery with 

 the butter. 



2. Provincial exhibitions which are made once a year in 

 each of the three provinces, Jutland, Fyn and Seeland- 

 Lolland-Falster. At these the creameries know the time 

 beforehand, and hence they are in reality only a trial of 

 what the buttermakers can do when put on their mettle. 

 At the same time there are exhibited cheese and dairy ma- 

 chinery and supplies. Instructive lectures about the butter, 

 cheese and machinery display are delivered and sometimes 

 is added a popular instructive subject. 



3. The experiment laboratory butter scorings take place, 

 as a rule, once a week, and since January, 1912, have been 

 compulsory for every creamery desiring to use the "Lur" 

 brand and thus produce export butter. The creamery, 

 accepted for control, is obliged, without previous warning 

 and on written or wired order, to send in immediately a 

 firkin of its finished butter to be scored. The butter 

 is scored when fourteen days old by 9 judges (merchants, 

 counselors and buttermakers) in three sets. If the butter 

 from a creamery is of poor quality (under the proclama- 

 tions by the agricultural department of Nov. 18, 1911, 

 and July 8, 1912) the right to use the "Lur" brand may 

 be canceled until the production is again of good quality. 

 If there is more "than 16 per cent, moisture in the butter 



