The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-16
Danish Farmyard
Cooperative Farm
Products Marketing
How 1t Is Done in Europe and May Be Done
in America to the Profit of Both
Farmer and Consumer
BY MATTHEW S. puoeEoN
DAY AMONG DANISH FARMERS
in America to the Profit of
Farmer and Consumer
. BY MATTHEW S. pUoeEoN,

Copenhagen, Denmark-This is
great farming country. Every square
foot Of land Is utilized. There is al.
most no waste land In America you
will find here and there a scientific
farmer, Here every farmer is a seien.
tiiic farmer. He knows farming, and,
thanks to cooperation, he knows mar
keting as we'll Every COW is a good
COW giving good quantity OF good
milk. Not only is the milk good when
II leaves the COW but II II goes to the
city II goes promptly and is still good
milk when IL is delivered. II II is
made into butter 1t becomes good but.
ter and reaches the consumer in the
best possible form. The pigs too are
high grade. AS they move to market
they appear to be all OF uniform color,
size, shape, and quality. for each con-
forms to a type proved by experimen.
fation 10 be the best for the purposes
to which they are devoted.
Every farmer analyses his soil. fer.
tiltzes his fields, and rotates his crops
according TO the best principles OF
soil conservation, In America YOU oc-
casiunally see such farming and such
farmers; here you see nothing else.
Medium Sized Farm.
What appears to be the home OF a
"ell-to-do farmer upon a medium
sized farm is our first point of at
tack
We find the buildings including
dwelling, stables, granary. hay shed
and other outbuildings arranged
around square court. All except the
dwelling house are rooted with thatch
which although 1t seems TO be in good
condition the farmer assures us is
twenty years old. Everything ex-
hibits the utmost neatness. The sta,
bles. poultry houses and pig shelters,
are all as clean as the nature of their
use permits. while the house itself is
immaculate
The former owner of the farm is
dead. The widow and children now
occupy the place, OF three sons one
is in Copenhagen and Is to leave the
farm permanently. He goes TO the
city not because he wants to but be.
cause there is no room for him upon
this farm and ii Is almost impossible
TO get more land-everybody wants TO
Keep all he has, The older son is to
have the major part of the farm turn.
ing over a smaller portion to a young
or brother The mother will continue
TO live on the farm with the older son.
The farm is eighty.eight acres in ex-
tent There are on II six horses. thir,
ty-ffye cows, and sixty pigs. besides
the poultry The farm with its stock,
buildings, and equipment is worth
about sl7OO000.
Cooperative Bacon Factory.
The farmer Is member of a co.
operative bacon factory In order to
meet the demands of the market,
which has been most carefully studied.
he and the other members find Il
necessary TO breed a pig of a particu.
lar type, one which will produce good
bacon, All Of the members therefore
are raising pig produced by crossing
the English Yorkshire with the native
Danish breed They have found also
that the best bacon is obtained when
the pigs are brought TO market from
twenty-five to twenty-eight weeks old,
weighing bGween $50 and 200 pounds.
Careful experimentation has also dem.
onstrated that ii the hogs are mar.
keied at this time the most bacon per
food unit fed them is produced. The
pigs life is busy life. They have
only five to seven months TO live and
must weigh at the end of that time
from $50 TO 200 pounds. The hogs
are also bred for large litters since
this Is an important consideration
when 1t becomes necessary to rush
the entire output of hogs upon the
market al an early age, Experts say
that the pig so produced is ideal for
the production of bacon.
Cooperative creamer'.
This farmer belongs to co,opera-
tive dfiry association which conducts
a creamery some little distance away. |
The members are mostly the smaller
farmers. Each leaves his cans of
milk on the road to be gathered up BY |
a collector hired by the association.
The collector when he returns the
cans brings back the skinned milk |
The milk sent into the creamery is
.ested and the price depends altogeth.
,r Upon the butter fut contained in