The Carlisle independent., 1909-12-30
SUCCESS OF DANISH FARMER
Largely Due to Many Cooperative Or ganizations Relieving Him of
 Many Commercial Details.

The part which cooperation has played in the development of Dan- isA agriculture, Danish export trade, and Danish institutions, is very large one indeed. Not only has emi- grafton practically ceased, but since it's introduction in 1881, the urban population has almost doubled, while by ten per cent.
 They have many organizations which are strictly cooperative in the narrow and technical sense of the term, and many others which are animated by the same spirit Merely to enumerate them all would take considerable space. For one, the Danish Cooperative Egg Export as- sociation of Copenhagen has 30,000 members, distributed among 800 local societies. There are 60 cooperative societies for bee-keepers, societies for the purchase of seeds and fertilizers and agricultural machinery, for the insurance of stock, for the purchase of feeding stuff, etc There are co-opera- tive companies that insure the farm CTS against loss through the condem- nation of hogs because of disease
 The local cooperative organiza- tions are united into federations through which they cooperate with one another and greatly increase the efficiency of all. The farmers SUD- plies are largely purchased at whole sale in large quantities through these federationS, and are distributed very economically. What the farmer has to sell is similarly sold in large quan- titles in the best market by skilled business men. The market price for Danish farmers chief products is no such uncertain thing as it is in this country. Committees of experts rep resenting various butter interests meet once a week and fix the price on butter for the week. They take prices basis, and, correcting these accord ing to the feeling of the market" they fix the price for Denmark, and usually the price thus fixed remains constant for several weeks. A sim liar method is used in fixing the price of hogs for the country.
 Because the Danish farmer has so much business intelligence and ability he has created business organizations the cooperative associations-tha relieve him of many of the commer- cial details of his business. These things are given over to the experts of the cooperative societies and the federations The farmer is left greater freedom to increase his knowledge and skill as producer and is able, because of his partnership with many others in really large business and because of his immediate share in the nations export trade to take really large view of commercial affairs.
 And especially he has made of farm ing an exact science. "He is by na- ture and training a serious man, strictly sober, very attentive to de- tails, anxiously watching for every new improvement in farming" a Scotch report says
 Quietly and unobserved, he has DS6u uOluS dS uluCL lOl 6ON- ernment and society as for his own export trade, and for the improve ment of his own cattle and butter and bacon.
 The Danes success, achieved large ly through agriculture, has led to much study and investigation by Euro peans of their methods and organiza- tion. In 1904, a Scotch commission composed of between thirty and forty agriculturalists made tour of inves- tigation in Denmark and published report dealing with Danish methods and organizations. Most of the coun- tries of Europe, in fact, in dealing with the agriculture, are following along the lines marked out by the nappc