AGRICULTURAL COOPERATION IN DENMARK. 
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Each export association has started business with a few creameries 
and each year a few additional creameries have joined. In the case 
of several of the older associations only one or two members have 
withdrawn during a period of 25 years. 
Each association operates its business independent of other associa- 
tions ; and with the exception of the Danish Dairies Export Associa- 
tion, each export association limits its operations to creameries in 
the particular section of the country where its headquarters are 
established. However, these associations do work together in carry- 
ing out certain trade policies and standards, which serve the com- 
mon interests of the producers and the Danish butter trade in gen- 
eral. For this purpose the 11 export associations are federated into 
one national organization — The Federated Danish Cooperative But- 
ter Export Association (De Sanwirkende Danske Andelssniorexport 
Foreninger). The standards and trade policies practiced by the 
export associations have been a dominant factor in establishing the 
Fig. 10. — Warehouse of the East Jutland Cooperative Butter Export Association at Aar- 
hus. Danish butter arrives from local creamery packed in standard casks, bearing the 
national " Lur Brand " trade-mark. 
enviable reputation for trade dependability and high quality which 
the Danish butter trade enjoys on the home and foreign markets. 
The Danish Dairies Export Association (Danshe Mejeriers Andels 
Smoreksport forening, Copenhagen) with its 227 creameries, is the 
largest export association in Denmark and has members scattered in 
all sections of the Kingdom, while the other associations restrict their 
membership to creameries in a limited territory. This association has 
sufficient property and reserve funds to provide its own security for 
necessary operating capital without asking its members for any 
financial guaranty. Instead of remitting to the creameries according 
to the Copenhagen butter quotation, it remits to them each week 
the actual price received for the butter, minus the cost of operations. 
These two features are undoubtedly looked upon with favor by 
many creameries, and largely explain the larger membership of the 
" Danish Dairies." 
