THE POULTRY PRODUCING COMMUNITY 
prices. If any agent finds his market sluggish, and is unable 
to sell at the average prices prevailing elsewhere, he promptly 
advises the head office in Los Angeles, and sufficient fruit is 
diverted from his market to relieve it and restore prices to 
normal level. 
Through these agencies of its own the Exchange is able to 
get and transmit to its members the most trustworthy infor- 
mation regarding market conditions, visible supplies, etc. This 
system affords a maximum of good service at a minimum cost. 
The volume of the business is so large that a most thorough 
equipment is maintained at much less cost to growers than 
any other selling agency can offer. 
The annual business of the California Fruit Growers’ Ex- 
change amounts to over ten million dollars, and the Exchange 
handles over half the citrus fruit output of the State. Yet 
there are people who say co-operation in America will not 
work. 
Co-operative Egg Marketing in Denmark. 
I have discussed at length the work of the California Fruit 
Growers’ Exchange, as the best example in the United States 
of the co-operative marketing of farm produce. We have thus 
far but little co-operative work in the marketing of poultry 
products. Canada has a few examples, but it is to European 
countries that we must go for a full demonstration of the 
principle of co-operation when applied to the products of the 
hen. In England and in Ireland co-operative efforts in the 
growing, fattening, and marketing of poultry and eggs are 
quite common. It is to Denmark, however, that we must go to 
find the most wholesale example of this truly modern type 
of business effort. 
The Danes are co-operators in the fullest sense. They have 
co-operative creameries and co-operative packing houses. The 
Danish Egg Export Society is an organization, the plan and 
work of which is very much like that of the California Fruit 
Growers’ Exchange. 
The local branch of the association buys the eggs of the 
farmer, paying for them by weight. Collectors are hired to 
gather them at frequent and regular intervals, and are pafd In 
accordance with the amount of their collections, but must 
stand the loss of breakage. Each individual poultryman’s 
eggs are kept separate until they reach a centralizing station. 
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