88 BULLETIN 1266, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
of cooperative electric light and power plants and cooperative baker- 
ies, two cooperative potato-meal factories and six local potato- 
marketing associations. 
CENTRAL COOPERATIVE COUNCIL. 
Each group of cooperatives (creameries, butter export associations, 
bacon factories, purchasing associations of various kinds, etc.) have 
formed federations for general service purposes. As early as 1898 
these federations worked together through a Central Cooperative 
Council (Andelsudvalget) . This cooperative effort in the interest 
of the whole cooperative movement resulted in the formation of the 
central organization, the Federated Danish Cooperative Association 
(De Samvirkende Danshe Andelsselshaber) , in 1917. Its member- 
ship now comprises 16 cooperative federations and large cooperative 
enterprises such as the Danish Cooperative Bank. Its activities are 
directed by the Central Cooperative Council, whose membership is 
composed of representatives from the respective cooperative federa- 
tions. Anders Nielsen, Svejstrup Ostergaard, t]ie most active and 
prominent leader in Danish agricultural cooperation during the last 
two decades, is chairman of this committee. The cooperative asso- 
ciations jointly publish their own weekly cooperative journal 
(Andelsbladet) under the direction of the central cooperative com- 
mittee. 
After due allowance is made for other factors, the result of agricul- 
tural cooperation in Denmark has been twofold: (1) Standardized, 
high-quality agricultural products have become a fundamental basis 
for efficient distribution through more direct marketing channels 
with costs reduced to a minimum; and (2) a rational adjustment has 
been made in farm production to meet better the consumers' demand 
in the modern markets. This cooperative organization, so success- 
full}' developed by the Danish farmers, rests fundamentally on a cor- 
rect training in rural life. The Danish system of rural education cr> 
supplies this unique training in scientific agriculture and rural citi- 
zenship. Her enlightened farm people, trained to rely on their own 
capacities, enable Denmark to pursue this rational policy in farm 
economics and progress in rural life. 
66 U. S. Bureau of Education, Bulletin 1914, Xos. 22 and 24, and Bulletin 1913, No. 58. 
by H.'w! Foght. 
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