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following partial description of the " Dairy Sanderum," at 

 Odense, taken from a circular given us upon our visit to that 

 dairy, gives an idea of this type of co-operative organiza- 

 tion : — 



Began to Avork on the 1st of May, 1910. "Was established by the 

 farmers of seven villages in the neighborhood of Odense, with 130 

 members and a total of 1,000 cows. Milk delivered in a year by its 

 members is 2,750,000 kilogi-ams (quarts). Besides, the dairy buys 

 1,000,000 kilograms from 50 farms, with 370 cows. The funds were 

 raised by a loan for which all members are liable jointly and sep- 

 arately. This loan is to be amortized in a series of years. The 

 transport of the mUk from the producers to the dairy is carried 

 on by the dairy itself, and takes place once a day at least. From 

 the milk deliveries 30 jDer cent is returned to the providers and 

 15 per cent is used to make cheese of. The rest is sold in town as 

 butter, cream, baby milk, sweet milk and skimmed milk. Accounts 

 for the milk are settled every week, according to the butter quota- 

 tion and the contents of fat found by testing every day. Ten per 

 cent is retained to be paid out at the end of the year as overplus. 



The dairy owns 23 wagons for transporting milk from the 

 farmers and to its shops and customers. It also owns 12 

 horses for use in town delivery, but hires horses for bringing 

 in the milk. The dairy has 20 stores in Odense selling only 

 its products. 



In this same town of Odense we visited a co-operative 

 slaughterhouse representing about 7,000 farmers. The es- 

 stablishment itself is valued at 2,000,000 kroner ($536,000). 

 The weekly killings amount to 2,200 hogs and 500 cattle, 

 while the production per week averages 1,000 strips of bacon, 

 10 tons of lard, 10 tons of sausage and 10 tons of tinned 

 goods. This is only one of many such organizations in Den- 

 mark, and is a sample of the co-operative societies which 

 have resulted from the loss of the German market for corn 

 and the consequent necessity of catering to the English trade. 

 This trade demanded a different type of hog from the long 

 legged Danish breed, and white Yorkshire boars were se- 

 cured and crossed with the Danish breed, a cross which pro- 

 duced an ideal type for the market, weighing about 180 

 pounds and giving a uniform, standard product. Private 



