Danish Poultry Societies. 



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Italian breeds, and at the same time to strengthen the 

 original stock of the country by careful selection. Asiatic 

 breeds were afterwards largely introduced for crossing 

 purposes in order to increase the production of eggs with 

 brown shells, which are much in demand for export. The 

 society holds shows from time to time in different parts of 

 the kingdom, and stations have been established in the 

 different provinces for breeding birds of pure blood, chiefly 

 of Italian and Spanish races, as these have proved to be more 

 suitable than French fowls for the Danish climate. Members 

 of the society can obtain the use of these birds free of charge, 

 and other persons may enjoy the same advantages on 

 payment of a small fee ; sitting-eggs are also supplied by the 

 stations on similar terms. Information and instruction is 

 provided by the society's travelling lecturers and by means 

 of a periodical journal. 



The members of the society are divided into three classes of 

 honorary, extraordinary, and ordinary members. The first 

 are elected by the council ; the extraordinary members are 

 life members who compound for their subscriptions by the 

 payment of 50 kr. (£2 15s. 6d.), while the ordinary 

 members pay, as a rule, a minimum subscription of 2 kr. 

 (2s. 3d.) yearly, but this is reduced in the case of cottagers to 

 ikr. (is. ijd.). The business of the society is managed by a 

 small executive committee, who are responsible to the general 

 council which consists of 38 representatives, 2 for each 

 province, elected at the annual meeting of the members. 



An institution of more recent origin, which is exercising 

 considerable influence on the development of the trade in 

 eggs from Denmark, is the co-operative association for the 

 export of eggs, which was founded at Veijle in Jutland in 

 February, 1895. This society has now 345 branches 

 throughout Denmark, and numbers altogether 1 8,500 members. 

 Export depots have been established at Veijle, Odense, 

 Aalborg, and Copenhagen, to which the branch societies 

 forward the eggs collected from their members. On arrival 

 at the depots the eggs are stamped with the society's mark, 

 sorted into five classes, according to size, and packed in boxes 

 lined with wood-wool for export to the United Kingdom. In 



