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Co-operative Movement in Denmark, [sept., 



to endeavour to concentrate and unite the efforts of the 

 various societies in all matters connected with dairy- 

 association. The State, in the yearly budget for 1907-8, 

 granted the Committee Kr. 4,000 (^222) towards the ex- 

 penses of butter exhibitions, and Kr. 1,000 (£55) for the 

 wages of a consultant in the control of the dairies. 



Taking next the local associations of dairies, the Presidents 

 of which form the Committee above-mentioned, we find 

 the Associated Dairies' Union of Jutland, composed of all 

 the thirteen minor dairy associations of the peninsula, who 

 again have as members 504 dairies. The object of this asso- 

 ciation is to form a connecting link between the various dairy 

 associations of Jutland, and in general to further the 

 interests of the dairy industry by holding butter competi- 

 tions, exhibitions, giving advice, and so on. Each dairy 

 association pays a yearly contribution calculated upon the 

 amount of milk dealt with (in the year 1907-8 this contribu- 

 tion was Kr. 3 (3s. 4^.) per million pounds of milk), and 

 each association sends one representative for each seven 

 dairies of the association. The Union has a yearly budget 

 of Kr. 14,000 (£777). The subscriptions amount to Kr. 

 6,000 (£333). The State contributed Kr. 6,650 (^369), which 

 was expended in securing the services of an expert as con- 

 sultant, in arranging butter exhibitions, and generally in 

 forwarding the production of milk and butter. 



The Associated Dairies' Union of Zealand and Lolland- 

 Falster has a membership of five dairy associations — or in all 

 140 dairies. The Dairy Association of Funen is composed 

 of 145 dairies. Both these associations have generally 

 the same object as the Jutland union above-mentioned. 



Election of the Boards of Co-operative Institutions. — As a 

 general rule all associations in Denmark coming within the 

 scope of co-operation are controlled by a committee and 

 chairmen elected for different lengths of time — usually for a 

 year. It has been found that it is better to keep such com- 

 mittees separate, and as a consequence we find a number 

 of such boards — in the smaller districts and villages often 

 composed of the same men — directing different undertakings 

 in the various branches of agricultural co-operation, andj 

 working side by side throughout the land. 



