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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 9, 11 January 1912, Page 8

Bapon-curing, as managed by the Danes, provides a striking object lesson for us. The manner in which they go to work on cp-oporative lines is as follows: — Tho leading farmers of a district call their neighbours together and decide to erect killing works and a factory; the surrounding farmers are canvassed to say how many pige they will provide annually. Whatever number they engage to send is their minimum, and under his agreement he is compelled to give all the pige he handles to the factory. None of the suppliers put up any capital in the factory, but they all become guarantors to the bank for the cost of the factory, and the arrangement made is that the factory paya off about one-fourteenth of its cost annually, and money can be obtained under these terms for such institutions at 4 per cent, per annum. A committee of suppliers is appointed, which acts as an ordinary directorate, and appoints a manager to take charge. The buildings , are completely equipped co as to deal with all the by-products in tho most profitable way. Each supplier attaches a. metal tag to the ear of his contributions, and the management sends round advice that a pig truck will be available on a certain day at a certain place. The farmers can therefore save expanse by killing their pigs co as to send all together.- From the scales the carcases pass through cooling and chilling rooms to the curing department, and thence .to packer*, tho whole bmineu being conducted under one roof.