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BULLETIN 1266, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
increased by improved home-grown strains of seeds; and an im- 
portant seed industry has been developed with a large surplus seed 
export of orchard grass, meadow fescue, swedes, turnips, and 
cabbages. 
This cooperative effort on the part of the producers gave rise to 
a unique arrangement in 1913, in the way of a permanent agree- 
ment between the Danish Farmers Cooperative Association for Seed 
Growing and the Cooperative Wholesale Society. According to this 
agreement the growers' association undertakes the production of 
good seed from select strains under control, while the Cooperative 
Wholesale Society's seed department takes over all the retail trade 
in seeds produced by the members of the growers' association. The 
growers' association has agreed not to retail seeds and will sell at 
Fig. 17. — Danish Farmers Cooperative Seed Growers' Association warehouse at Roskilde. 
wholesale only the surplus which the society's seed department can 
not handle. The Cooperative Wholesale Society's seed department 
engages only in the retail distribution of seeds and will not grow 
seeds for commercial trade. A joint committee formed by the presi- 
dents and managers of both institutions manages the seed-experi- 
ment farms and controls the breeding work and production of stock 
seed. 
The headquarters of the Danish Farmers Cooperative Associa- 
tion for Seed Growing are at Roskilde, together with a large, modern, 
well-equipped seed warehouse (fig. 17). Besides, the associa- 
tion owns and operates five branch warehouses with 45,000 square 
yards of storeroom, which are all equipped with special machinery 
for cleaning and drying seed. 
The membership in the Danish Farmers Cooperative Association 
for Seed Growers consists of two classes: The A members, agricul- 
tural societies, which do not actually engage in seed growing and 
do not participate in the profits of the association, but which pro- 
mote and encourage the growing of seed under control, stimulate an 
