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BULLETIN 1266, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
DANISH CREAMERY MANAGERS' SOCIETY. 
The Danish Creamery Managers' Society (Dansk Mejerist Foren- 
ing) is an organization among the managers of the creameries 
formed in 1887. The managers work together to keep in touch with 
the most scientific progress made in the manufacture of butter and 
cheese. The society has taken a prominent part in organizing but- 
ter exhibits, which have helped to bring about a creditable improve- 
ment in the quality of Danish butter. The society publishes the 
" Malkeritidende." the only strictly dairy journal published in Den- 
mark. The minimum wage scale for creamery managers is arranged 
by two committees, one from the Creamery Managers* Society and 
the other appointed by the National Federation of the Danish 
Creameries. The creamery helpers also have their organization. 
SIZE OF THE DANISH COOPERATIVE CREAMERY. 
As the whole milk is sent direct from the farm to the creamery, 
these plants are comparatively small. They are built to handle the 
milk production in their immediate vicinities. The average cream- 
ery handles from 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 pounds of whole milk an- 
nually. As indicated by Table 1, the average creamery has about 
150 members with from 800 to 1,000 cows. 
Table 1. — Average number of shareholders and cows and average quantity of 
milk handled in each Danish cooperative creamery. 1 
Year. 
Share- 
holders. 
Cows. 
Milk 
received. 
1900 : 
Number. 
154 
158 
151 
143 
144 
141 
Number. 
889 
980 
931 
825 
869 
861 
Pounds. 
4, 416, 500 
1910 . 
5, 637. 401 
1915 
5,574, 173 
1920 2 
3. 956, 079 
1921 ... 
4, 880, 183 
1922 
4, 970, 760 
1 Source: Courtesy, Kontoret for Mejeri-Statistik— Aarhus. 
1 World-War conditions cut milk production 
ASSEMBLING THE MILK. 
The general practice in Denmark is to assemble at the coopera- 
tive creamery the whole milk from the individual farms. This nat- 
urally eliminates the use of cream separators on the farm. The 
creamery is built near the center of the community from which it 
draws its membership, in the rural village or often in the open 
country. In early days, it was a common practice for the mem- 
bers on a milk route to arrange among themselves to drive the milk 
wagon on certain days each month. Now the common arrangement 
is tor the association to engage one farmer on each route to collect 
the milk each morning at the farmstead or farm's private road. The 
same wagon returns the milk cans rilled with skim milk. The re- 
muneration is a iixed sum per ton of milk delivered. 
PAYMENT I oil MIl.K. 
The creamery associations all operate either on a 6 or L2 months' 
milk pool. A partial payment is made to the milk deliverers once or 
