The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1912-05-01


breeding in Denmark occupied yer.
modest position in relation to agri
culture. There we're only few fowl!
and the eggs we're small and of irregu
lar size. AS consequence price!
were low. 1t was during the las
fifteen or twenty years that interes
was awakened among the rural popula
tion, especially the small farmers anC
their wives.
All over the country hens are KEEP
in proportion to the area occupied
Large poultry farms could, as rule
not pay in our country and only yer.
few are to be seen and those Onl.
where they get an extra income b.
selling eggs for Matching, for incu
bators and artificial breeders are no
used to any great extent. In autumn
and winter the fowls are running ovel
the farm almost anywhere and thu
poultry houses are to be found in thu
permanent farm buildings. Tn
breeding and fattening of water fowls
aud turkeys is practiced in differen
parts of the country to some extent.
The foundation of poultry societies
which extend over the whole country
has had a great influence on the ad
vancement of the poultry breeding il
our country. At the present time
there are three poultry societies O.
which the first was founded in thu
year 1878, the third in 1897. All tire,
societies have formed united action
especially concerning the arrangement
of large poultry shows and th'
establishing of breeding centers.
Each society publishes a journa
which reaches the members twice
each month. Each society also hal
one advisor in poultry culture, wh'
specially delivers lectures and give
practical advice. They Arrange
poultry shows in different parts o
the country, often in connection will
private firms, established years befor'
the first named. The largest cooper
alive society is the Danish Farmers
Co operative Egg Export Association
but some of the cooperative bacOi
factories in different parts Of thu
country have also established eg!
packing and picking stations. Will,
the last named collect eggs from loca
places, all traders and the first nance
large cooperative society work owe
the same ground. Production o
poultry meat or fatten1ng is of NJ
Importance Egg production is TIT
main object.
The first experiment in the co
operative line was undertaken by tn
cooperative creameries, where egg
we're collected, but this importan
matter took first place in the yea
1895, when Instructor Moller from
Jutland founded the Danish Farmers
Cooperative Egg Export Association
About fifth of the eggs exported
from Denmark pass through thi
society, which collects eggs over tn
greater part of our country. Th'
society embraces now about 800 attil
lated small local societies or circles
with total membership of NOR,
than 40, 900 poultry breeders, mostl!
among the small farm ers, who are t.
be found In large numbers all owe
the country. In every county is
representative and the directors il
the head society consists of fou
members chosen every two years, ant
the manager chosen every five years.
The smallest local society must a
least consist of ten members. Eacl
member must pay fifty ore on admis
sion to the head society. and one or
per hen to the local society. All thu
local societies which thus form an in
tegral part of the head society, hav,
their own depot and collector, wh'
once or twice a week drives to tn