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Dairy Farming in Denmark. 



cian trade. The imports from Russia into Galicia reached 

 in 1898 some 850,100 cwts., only two-thirds of this going 

 beyond Podwoloczyska. 



At this latter town there are three albumen factories, each 

 of which annually consumes three to three and a half million 

 eggs, lib. of albumen being extracted from ylbs. of whites ot 

 eggs. The albumen is used for printing textiles, in the 

 manufacture of porcelain, in sugar refineries, and clarifica- 

 tion of wine. It is sent out in cases of about one and two 

 cwts. at ^5 5 s. to £5 1 os. per cwt., and goes to the other 

 Austrian territories, Germany, France, England, and America. 

 The egg yolk is also worked up at the same time. The 

 annual production of a factory amounts to 500-600 casks of 

 about 4 cwts. each, worth some £2 per cwt. The egg yolk is 

 used for dressing glove leather. 



[Deutsche Landwirtschaftliche Presse.] 



Co-operative Dairy-farming in Denmark. 



The Appendix to the Minutes of Evidence of the 

 Departmental Committee on Food Preservatives contains an 

 interesting report of a visit paid to Denmark by Dr. 

 Timbrell Bui strode and Mr. Huddart in connection with the 

 business of the Committee. In this report it is observed 

 that Denmark is a country of co-operative dairy societies. 

 The country has laid itself out to perfect its butter manu- 

 facture as a national industry, and local exhibitions held all 

 over the State in furtherance of the butter trade are aided by 

 the Government. No State aid is, however, afforded to small 

 farmers in need of capital for outlay on their business, but 

 money can be borrowed at a low rate of interest from local 

 banks, some of which belong to large co-operative societies. 

 The central creameries draw milk from an average radius of 

 six miles, and the farmers (who are members of the society to 

 whose creamery they send their produce) are paid according 

 to the amount and the quality of the milk sent in. Govern- 

 ment inspectors are employed to take samples of separated 



