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p. 24). It is proposed to employ the electric light machinery 
of the dairy for lighting the roads, and to supply electric 
power to the farms, in the district. A co-operative 
distillery, also driven by electricity, has been recently 
built, and a bee-keeping society is now in process of 
formaticn. The first local breeders’ syndicate was founded 
by the society in 1892, and at the present time there are 
fourteen of these syndicates affiliated to the central body. 
The society has organised a council of arbitration for settling 
differences which may arise between tenants and land-owners. 
A branch has also been formed to deal with more purely social 
questions, and zzéer ala to further the work of the various 
sections of the Herzele society. The work of the various 
branch associatious is supervised by the central society, and 
in 1899 the affiliated branches comprised eight cattle 
insurance societies, two co-operative societies for the pur- 
chase of agricultural requisites, a branch for the examination 
and sale of farm and garden seeds, four co-operative dairies, 
one Raiffeisen bank, one electric light society, one co- 
operative distillery, one experiment association, and 
fourteen breeders’ societies. 
WAGES OF FARM SERVANTS IN DENMARK. 
The State Statistical Bureau at Copenhagen has recently 
issued the results of an inquiry, undertaken in July 1898, at 
the request of the Ministry of Finance, into the wages 
and earnings of farm servants and day labourers in agri- 
culture and forestry in 1897 in Denmark. The information 
now published is based on returns received from a number 
of employers, as well as from seventy agricultural societies in 
the country. 
In the case of farm servants engaged by the year or half 
year, as distinct from day labourers, it appears that the 
average yearly cash wages in Denmark in 1897 were 
