Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1922-07-19

&C INTO bNLLGF ana NneCSe anu ldhG
up competition with the noble
men. He carried his point; the
thing went ahead with great speed
and decided success. Next year
cooperative creameries sprung up
all over the country.
What Statistics Show
The State statistics of Denmark
for 1913, the last year of normally,
give the number of creameries IN
Denmark at 1,455. OF those 1,i57
were strictly cooperative cream
cries, 23S partly cooperative and
! 80 individually owned and operat-
ed on big farms as mentioned be-
fore. The export of milk products
made in Denmark amounted IN
1912. to 2l3,2S0,0O0 crowns Zone
crown at that time was q cents).
About eight years later the first
cooperative packing house was
started. In 1912 thirty-five CO
operative packing houses were IN
operation with a total export of
products valued at 174,294OOO
crowns.
But the farmers export of food
stuff from animals amounted for
the same year in all to 434,6lSOOO
crowns.
The export of live stock Melted
I54.lS5.OOO crowns; cereals, 1884,
coo crowns; vegetables and fruit
amounted to 100000 crowns;
hides and skins to l6,766,OCO
crowns; seed to 100000 crowns.
You can buy Danish seed in Rich
mond: for instance, cabbage seed.
OF course, this list is not com
plete but includes the most inn
F portant accounts.
Packers Cooperate
When the cooperative packing
houses were organized in business
like manner, the export of eggs
was taken up and amounted in
the first year of organization to
about two million crowns. IL also
proved 10 be a success and the re-
port for 1921 gives a total export
of 556,000000 eggs, amounting 70
IS2. 6O0.0OO crowns. which in u. 5.
money means about six cents per
Iegg, somewhat better than the
poultrymen do in this neighbor-
hood, but the Danish prices of
eggs was due to cooperation and
system.
Denmark is divided into egg cir
cles which means that the eggs
are gathered and packed for eX-
port at a central place in each
circle. Each circle has its number
and each patron in the circle also
has number, both numbers
stamped by patrons on the egg
she'll. Most of the eggs 90 to
England and if is should happen
] that a buyer of Danish eggs m
London gets n bad egg for his
I breakfast, he need only TO look
at the number and send a telegram
to egg headquarters in Denmark
Surprising the eggs is marked rs
20. it will only take a few min
utes TO put the finger on the cul-
prit who fooled the man in Lon
don.
OF course, tie utmost care is
taken IN han1.ing and controlling
the egg trade, but it does not take
one-tenth of the time we are spend
ing on eggs by our old, nO-good
system for distribution.
The foregoing mentioned coop
Grafton related to production and
sale. but there is also an older and
successful cooperation in buying.
The State report of Denmark gives
for 1910, S57 cooperative stores.
with a membership of 1878 and
business of 42.327,000 crowns.
OF course. the war years business
! transaction were considerably
greater, but the conditions were
abnormal, so the figures would
not reveal a normal condition.
But the growth of the co-opera-
tive stores can be seen in a report
from a wholesale house owned 10y
the cooperative stores, which re-
ported the number of cooperative
stores connected with the whole
sale house in 1912 to be 1909 Co
operative associations and stores,
with a membership of 1S4.569 and
a business transaction of 55.50O,0O0
crowns.
At present this ought TO give