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The Dairy -pactorics of Sweden, 
am therefore able to give trustworthy information relative to 
this dairy-factory, which perhaps may prove of some interest to 
you also. 
The object of the company is to purchase milk at different 
places, situated within the provinces surrounding- the lake 
" Millar," for the making of butter, cheese, and other dairy 
products, partly on the spots where the milk is delivered from 
the surrounding farms, and partly at the central-dairy at Stock- 
holm. The branch factories are to be established partly near 
railway stations in daily communication with the central factory, 
and partly at places from which a daily communication with the 
capital cannot be reckoned on all the year round, and which 
latter, on that account, must be so arranged as to be able to carry 
on a more independent existence. 
All these dairy-factories are under one and the same direction, 
consisting of five shareholders, annually elected at the general 
meeting of the company, among whom the Chairman and the 
Managing Director must reside in Stockholm, or its neighbour- 
hood. The salary of the chairman amounts to 1000 Svv. dollars 
(55/.) ; that of the managing director to 5000 Sw. dollars (275/.) ; 
and that of the three other directors to 500 Sw. dollars (27/. 10s.) 
each. The board of directors authorizes both the purchase of 
the milk, and the manner of employing the same, as also the 
sale of the manufactured produce. The board appoints and 
dismisses the assistants and clerks. 
The managing director has to effect the purchase of the milk 
and the selling of the produce ; both, however, in conformity 
with a plan previously drawn up by the board of directors ; he 
alone engages and dismisses workmen and women, both at the 
■central and the branch dairies. 
The board of directors meets once a month at least, the chair- 
man exercising a general supervision in the intervals. To other 
members of the board is committed the superintendence of 
certain districts, according to a division agreed upon between 
themselves. 
Branch dairies, at places which are in daily communication 
with the capital all the year round, are established by the board 
of directors whenever and wheresoever they find it advisable. 
The establishment of branch dairies in districts which are de- 
prived of daily communication with the capital requires more 
direct co-operation between the company and the neighbouring 
dairy farmers; but such dairies are always established as soon 
as sufficient means, by subscription for shares, have been obtained 
ut the place, and a guarantee has been given for the delivery of 
the requisite quantity of milk. 
The annual profits of the company, after all the expenses 
