DANISH CO-OPERATION IMPORTANT TO FARMS
. COPENHAGEN - , July 6. Some official figures, 11077 available, illustrate in a striking manner the immense importance of co-operation in Danish agriculture • and dairy farniing. The cofdpbfative dairies, numbering 1362, represent 82 per cent, of the country’s dairies, and 90 per cent, of Denmark’s, butter export hails from these ’ dairies,. ■ whoso membership amounts to 185>000, averaging 142 per dairy, the average ■ number of cows per dairy being 944;. '-' There are 48 co-operative bacon factories, with 176,570 members, averaging 3679 members per bacon factory, tho niimbcr of pigs exceeding 3,000,000 per annum. The export of eggs, which comes third in the list of exports of Danish: Agricultural produce, is also to a great extent worked through cooperation. ■■ The greatest turnover is that of the. Danish Co-operative Eggs Export. Corporation also plays a very important part in the supply of commodities, both - fodder, manure, etc., for agricultural requirements, and ordinary personal and household articles. ■
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6669, 24 July 1928, Page 12
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