COW INSURANCE SOCIETY.
Dairy-farmers in Whixall, England, have a system of cow insurance that has been in existence for over seventy years, and is now the largest registered cow insurance society in England and Wales. At the end of last year there were 298 members/ all being small holders. The scale of charges is as follows: —A member pays one shilling per cow as entrance fee, and one shilling per quarter, that is at the rate of lour shillings per vear as premium for each cow. For a calf tlie owner pays sixpence entrance and ninepence per quarter as premium. The society pays the value of each animal which dies from disease or accident while under insurance, subject to a maximum of £lO for a cow and £5 for a calf. No member is allowed to insure more than ten cows and six calves.
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Waipa Post, Volume V, Issue 238, 15 August 1913, Page 4
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144COW INSURANCE SOCIETY. Waipa Post, Volume V, Issue 238, 15 August 1913, Page 4
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