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tested by the Danish States Seed Testing Station. The control 
committee does not fix prices or interfere with the financial man- 
agement. 
Nowhere in European agriculture has the gulf between the pro- 
ducer and consumer been so successfully bridged as in the Danish 
seed industry. The producers of good seed are guaranteed a market 
and consumers are guaranteed well-grown and clean seed of superior 
strain. Through this splendid organization the growers' associa- 
tion with its direct control of seed growers and knowledge of seed- 
market conditions was able to regulate the acreage during and 
immediately after the war and thus avoid overproduction. As a 
result the growers' association and its members are now operating 
on a sound basis, while many of the private Danish seed merchants 
are bankrupt. 
Net Import of Maize into Denmark. 
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Fig. 18. — Beginning in the seventies the importation of maize for feeding increased 
with the development of Denmark's intensive animal industry. Submarine wart are 
during the war years cut off the normal imports. Data gathered through Denmark's 
Statistiske Departement. 
With respect to distribution, the growers' association has the 
benefit of the largest organized distributive system in the country — 
the Cooperative Wholesale Society — which distributes both through 
its network of rural cooperative stores and through the agricultural 
societies. Between 25 and 30 per cent of the total acreage in seeds 
in Denmark belongs to the 
association, and 25 per cent 
of the retail seed business is handled by the Cooperative Wholesale 
Society's seed department. 
IKED SI'P1M/Y ASSOCIATIONS. 
The new Danish agriculture meant an increased consumption of 
feedstuffs. In the late seventies, Denmark changed from a grain- 
exporting to a grain-importing country. Home production was 
unable to supply the increasing consumption of feeds, especially 
hurley and maize. The principal oil cakes fed are cottonseed cakes, 
