100 CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY IN SERVIA. 
to the Committee. The first meeting of the Committee was 
held on April 30th, and the sittings of the Committee to take 
evidence began on June 5th at Edinburgh, in the rooms of 
the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland. 

The exports of butter, bacon, and eggs from Denmark in 
1899 showedin each case an increase on 
Denmark’s 
Exports of 
Butter. butter 158,070,000lbs. were exported, all 
Bacon and Eggs. : : 
but 27,500,000 lbs. being of Danish produc- 
tion; of bacon and hams the exports amounted to 164,230,000 
Ibs., 158,510,000 being home produce; and eggs were 
exported to the number of 304,000,000. The United King- 
doin was Denmark’s principal customer for all these articles, 
the figures for the preceding year. Of 
the consignments to British ports having accounted for 
153,780,000 lbs. of butter, 155,870,000 lbs. of bacon and 
hams, and 286,000,000 eggs out of the gross exports of these 
products. 

In the annual Foreign Office Report on the trade of 
Servia in 1899 mention is made of an 
Co-operative institution known as the “‘ Zemlyorad- 
Society in Servia. nichka Zadrouga”’ or Farmers’ Union, 
w hich has been in existence for about five 
years, and whose object is, by co-operation, to furnish 
Servian farmers with loans for the purchase of materials and 
farm implements, and to provide them with the means 
of disposing of their produce and acquiring knowledge 
of improved agricultural methods. At the end of 1899, 
the Union had increased the number of its branches to 
200, and had obtained assistance from the Government, who, 
had placed means at its disposal to enable advances to be 
made to members, and exempied the Union from payment of 
all postal taxes. The Union is expected to prove a valuable 
agency for the agricultural development of Servia. 
[Horetgn Office Report, Annual Series, No. 2,383. Price t4d.] 
