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Excerpt from Manual of Agricultural Co-Operation in Denmark: And Hints for Its Adoption in India My time being short, I had to leave Denmark most reluctantly without studying their Cooperative institutions. In 1914 I found another opportunity of visiting Denmark, and I utilized this opportunity in studying the details of its Cooperative Institutions, as embodied in this volume. These details I gathered by personally visiting various factories, business houses' and offices of the institutions; and in preparing this volume I have made an attempt to embody full practical details of the organization, working, accounting and financial success of the Danish Cooperative Unions and Associations which have made agriculture so profitable in that country. The statements of yearly or half-yearly accounts of the various institutions given will, it is hoped, give to those desirous of establishing new Associations, an idea of the extent of business for which separate unions could profitably be formed, of the nature of transactions and the various items of expenses usually incurred, of the working out and distribution of surplus profits among the members, etc. Among the English publications on the subject, I have not come across one giving such complete details of this wonderful organization. It is, therefore, hoped that this Volume will meet a general want. To promoters, organizers, managers, and workers of Cooperative Unions, the information given herein will prove beneficial. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however,