AGRICULTURAL COOPERATION IN DENMARK. 69 
pledged to take their consumption of feeds (excluding home-grown 
grains) from the local association. With one central association this 
is limited to 660 pounds per cow each year. 
Management. — The guaranty-capital and buying-pledge agree- 
ment of the local association must conform to the requirements of 
the central association. Aside from this, the individual members 
manage and govern the internal affairs of the local association. The 
general assembly, which ordinarily meets once a year and is made up 
of delegates elected by members, 46 constitutes the highest authority in 
the affairs of the central association. These delegates elect the com- 
mittee of representatives (Reprasentantskab) , 47 whose members are 
elected for three years. Representatives are distributed in districts, 
according to local membership. The committee of representatives 
perfects its own organization, elects chairman, vice chairman, and 
secretary, and elects from its own members the board of directors, 
which consists of five members. Disputes arising between the central 
association and its members must be laid before the committee of 
representatives for settlement. If this decision is not satisfactory, 
it may be carried to the general assembly, where, if it involves a 
large sum, it will be disposed of by an arbitration court. 
The board of directors, with the approval of the committee of 
representatives, delegates the business management of the association 
to a competent business man (experienced feed and grain merchant), 
who conducts the association's business. 
Members of the committee of representatives are allowed trans- 
portation expenses and per diem when on official duty. The board 
of directors is allowed expenses and a salary sum as a board, which 
is usually fixed by the committee of representatives. The president 
generally receives about two-thirds of this sum, as he is usually 
called upon to give considerable time and attention to organization 
and business matters. 
FERTILIZER SUPPLY ASSOCIATION. 
The first cooperative effort among the farmers for buying their 
fertilizers was through local associations, but their buying was 
usually handled jointly through other central purchasing associa- 
tions. In 1901, 22 local purchasing associations for fertilizers in 
Jutland formed the Danish Cooperative Fertilizer Supply Associa- 
tion. At first its activities were restricted largely to the Jutland 
Peninsula, but both territory and membership were gradually en- 
larged and it finally became the national federation. The approach- 
ing conditions of monopoly and price fixing in the Danish fertilizer 
trade prompted the farmers to consolidate and rally enthusiastically 
around one central purchasing association. In 1916 the Danish 
Cooperative Fertilizer Supply Association 48 (Dansk Andels-Gocl- 
nings Forretning, Copenhagen) was reorganized to cover the whole 
* 6 In the Jutland Peninsula Association the general assembly gives admission and vote 
to one delegate for each 100' members. The Islands association gives admission and vote 
to one delegate for each $134 guarantee capital. , 
47 In the Jutland Peninsula Association the committee of representatives comprises 3o 
members ; in the Islands association, 17 members. 
48 Sources : Dansk Andels-Godning Forretning, 1922 ; Vedtagter for Dansk Andels- 
Gbdnings Forretning of 1916, issued by the fertilizer association ; Andelsbladet for 1915. 
1916. 1921. 3 922, and No. 14, 1923. 
