AGRICULTURAL COOPERATION IN DENMARK, 
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sunflower cakes (chiefly imported from Russia), soybean cakes and 
soybean meal, linseed cakes, coconut and peanut cakes. 
Denmark's import of grains 43 rose from a yearly import of 
39,000,000 pounds in 1880-1885 to 1,895,000,000 pounds in 1913. 
The principal grain imported for feeding is maize (fig. 18), which 
comes largely from North America and South America. The 
importation of oil cakes has increased from a yearly average of 
12,000,000 pounds in 1871-1875 to 1,308,000,000 pounds in 1913 (fig. 
19). In addition to these imports, Denmark's home production of 
oil cakes was 124,000,000 pounds in 1913 and 180,000,000 pounds in 
1921. The principal home oil-cake industry is based on the impor- 
tation of soybeans from the Far East which are treated in Danish 
factories. 
Consumption of Oil Cakes in Denmark. 
POUNDS 
MILLIONS 
1500 
000 
500 
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V///////A HOME PRODUCTION 
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Fig. 19. — The consumption of oil cakes in Denmark has increased with the development 
of dairying. Submarine warfare during the war years cut off the normal imports. 
Data gathered through Denmark's Statistiske Departement. 
The characteristic feature of this demand for feedstuff s is its 
uniformity, as practically every farmer buys oil cakes and maize 
for his cows and pigs. This provides a basis for common interest 
among the farmers in each community, which is helpful to the co- 
operative purchase association. The difficulties experienced in get- 
ting quality feeds at reasonable prices, especially imported grains 
and oil cakes, prompted the farmers to join in cooperative buying. 
Authoritative instances indicate that private grain and feed mer- 
chants attempted to organize and enforce trust prices on the farmers 
in the nineties. The cooperative associations have not only effec- 
tively combated such efforts, but have helped to develop a most re- 
liable and efficient organization in the buying of feedstuffs in foreign 
countries and distributing to the Danish farmers. 
Cooperative buying of feeds is done through central organizations, 
which limit their sphere of activity to a province. The whole coun- 
Data supplied by Denmark's Statistiske Departement, Copenhagen. 
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