AGRICULTURAL COOPERATION IN DENMARK. 19 
manager's salary is based on the creamery managers' minimum wage 
scale. This minimum wage scale provides for a fixed salary and a 
commission based on the quantity of milk handled by the creamery. 16 
In addition the manager has free residence and light, heat, and milk 
for his household. 
FEDERATION OF CREAMERIES. 
The creameries located within certain district areas have formed 
district service associations. The chairman of the board, together 
with the local creamery manager, represent the local creamery asso- 
ciation at the district association meetings. The 23 district creamery 
associations in the Kingdom are again organized into three provin- 
cial organizations. The provincial organizations {Jutland and Sjal- 
land-Lolland-F 'alsterske-B 'ornholmslce) each comprises several dis- 
trict creamery associations, while the local societies on the island of 
Funen are organized directly into one association which covers the 
entire Province. Thee three provincial associations form the national 
service federation of the creameries. 
The Xational Federation of the Danish Creameries (De Danshe 
31 ejerif orening ers FaUesorganisation) serves and acts as the national 
organ in all affairs pertaining to the common interest of the cream- 
eries. Its activities include the supervision of all matters, both at 
home and abroad, which may not concern any particular creamery 
but involve the interests of all, such as matters pertaining to dairy 
legislation. For instance, the federation appoints a committee to 
represent the producers on the Copenhagen Butter Quotation Board, 
and a committee on dairy statistics, which supervises the activities 
of Denmark's Dairy Statistical Bureau {Kontoret for Mejeri-Statis- 
tik, Aarhus) collects data and publishes yearly reports on dairy 
statistics, butter-price quotations, and other material dealing with 
the management of milk, butter, and cheese production in Denmark. 
Among the current questions with which the national creamery 
association is dealing at present are the stabilization of the weekly 
butter prices fixed by the Copenhagen Butter Quotation Committee, 
and the betterment of the quality of milk delivered to the creameries 
through the adoption of the quality-payment basis by the local 
creamery associations. 
Activities of the national federation are directed by a board of 
directors, consisting of seven members. Three of the members are 
the presidents of the provincial organizations, and the other four 
are elected at the annual meeting .of the committee of representatives 
(R 'epre sent ant skab ei) , each for a term of two years. Members of 
the above committee are elected by the district creamery association 
within each provincial organization on the basis of one representa- 
tive (repvdsentant) for each 20 members (creameries). 
Financial expenditures incurred by the national federation are 
distributed among the three provincial organizations in proportion 
to the quantity of milk which the creameries within the provincial 
organizations have handled during the previous fiscal year. 
16 With the middle-sized creamery, the fixed salary is around 2.400 kroner ($643 at par) 
per year, together with the butter value of 6 pounds of milk for each 1,000 pounds of 
milk treated and 1^ ore (0.402 cent) per each 2.2 pounds of cheese manufactured. 
