AGRICULTURAL COOPERATION" IN" DENMARK. 
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D. A. E.) in 1895. During the first years its activities were largely 
restricted to the Jutland province, but it soon spread a network over 
the country. It is now a centralized selling organization that em- 
braces the whole Kingdom. 
This national scope in cooperative egg selling was aimed at in the 
beginning. The D. A. E.'s point of contact with the egg producers 
is through local egg-collecting associations, of which there are now 
550 directly affiliated with the central association. The local associa- 
tions must submit to and are obligated to obey the rules and regula- 
tions of the central association. If contract agreements are violated 
by any local association or individual producer, the party may be 
excluded from the central association by its board of directors. 
FORM OF ORGANIZATION. 
Central association. — For the first five years the headquarters of 
the association were in Vejle, Jutland Province, but since 1900 the 
Fig. 16. 
-Loading Danish eggs packed in standard cases at Esbjerg, for shipment to 
British markets. 
central offices have been at Copenhagen. In addition to large packing 
houses at headquarters, the central association has established branch 
packing houses in 10 provincial towns throughout the Kingdom. The 
eggs collected by the local egg-collecting associations are sent to the 
nearest packing house, where they are examined, sorted, graded, and 
packed for shipment (see fig. 16). The popular crates contain 960 and 
1,440 eggs. The 1,440-egg crate is considered the standard size. The 
central association, at its Copenhagen headquarters, handles the sell- 
ing and directs the shipment of eggs from the different packing 
houses. 
The chief aim of the Danish Cooperative Egg Export Association 
is to. create the best possible foreign market for Danish eggs by 
guaranteeing to the buyer that all eggs delivered by the association 
are fresh and of high quality. Several central packing houses are 
equipped with concrete tanks for preserving eggs and with facilities 
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