Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1910 — How Danish Farmers Prosper. [ARTICLE]

How Danish Farmers Prosper.

The Danish farmers, living as they do on or near the seacoast, are great exporters of dairy stuff. England is so big a customer that the Danes in fun reproach their neighbors with eating

up their butter, and leaving them only oleomargarin. “Yet,” says F. M. Butlin in “Among the Danes,” “they are not all of that way of thinking, for one old farmer asked us if we could not persuade our fellow countrymen to eat butter with their cake.

If you ask how the Danish farmers manage to keep pace with our [the British] Increasing appetite for Danish eggs, butter and bacon, the answer is, they co-operate. The butter which is exported is made in their co-opera* tive dairies. The pigs are sdain in their co-operative slaughter houses, and the Dines are not a little proud of the process. One distinguished traveler complains that during his stay in Denmark he was always being asked to come and see a pig killed. “The eggs are exported by co-opera-tive societies. If a Dane has only one egg he can export It—always provided It be a good egg. No mistake must be made about that. Before the eggs are packed for export, down In the cooperative factory on the shore, they ar9 held over a basin filled with electric light, when all defects chn be detected with the naked eye. It is no use for an old egg to pose as a young one then. Each egg is marked with the owner’s number and the number of his district; the owners of bad eggs are fined. No less than 18,000 Danes belong to this one society. Here, too, butter Is packed Ibr the English market”