THE POULTRY PRODUCING COMMUNITY 
There are a number of these central stations at which the 
eggs are carefully crated and packed for shipment to England. 
The individual farmer is fined or taxed for all bad eggs 
found in his lot. This fine is deducted from his receipts and 
he has nothing to do but to submit to it or get out of the 
association. The latter he cannot afford to do because the 
association has its established brands and can pay him more 
for his eggs than he could secure by attempting to market 
them himself. As a result of this strict system of making the 
producer responsible for weight and quality of the eggs the 
Danish eggs have become the largest and finest In the world. 
Although the writer firmly believes in the co-operative mar- 
keting of farm produce, and considers that the success already 
secured in this work is conclusive evidence of the practicabil- 
ity and desirability of co-operation, it would not be fair to 
infer that co-operation has entirely driven out private or cor- 
porate enterprise. Just as a goodly per cent. of the citrus 
fruit of California is still handled by private dealers, so in 
Denmark we find that nearly one-half of the eggs sent to Eng- 
land are handled by private companies. Let it be noted, how- 
ever, that these companies maintain a system of buying on 
merit which enforces high quality that is not to be found 
where private buyers are without the spur of co-operative 
competition. Before co-operation entered the orange regions 
of California, the fruit was poorly packed and handled and the 
markets at times so glutted, that shipments of fruit sometimes 
failed to pay the freight, and this was actually charged back 
to the unfortunate grower. Co-operation has done away with 
this waste. In like manner the great loss from decomposed 
eggs and half hatched chicks is unknown to the egg trade of 
Denmark. 
Corporation or Co-operation? 
The community of farmers producing a large quantity of a 
single kind of product is the coming form of agricultural enter- 
prise. Will this community be promoted by corporation or by 
co-operation? 
Arthur Brisbane says, “As individual control of the Govern- 
ment has been superceded by collective control, so individual 
control of industries will be followed by collective control. 
That is the natural order.” 
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