Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1899 — Denmark’s Food Exports. [ARTICLE]

Denmark’s Food Exports.

Denmark gives forcible evidence of increasing yields, says the Forum. She has a population of 2,200,000, or 143 inhabitants per square mile. "She is not only able to feed her steadily increasing population, but Is in a position to export considerable quantities of food products. In 1885 her exports of such products amounted to 200,000,000 krollers ($54,000,000); her imports, to 83,000,000 kroners ($22,400,000), an excess of $811,000,000, or sl7 per capita. The exports of food products, animal and vegetable, of the United States, for the fiscal year 1897 amounted to $390,000,000. or $5.55 per capita. In the phenomenal year 1898 they rose to $550,000,000. or $7.85 per capita. The rate of progress In Denmark is shown by the following statement: “According to official figures the production of grain, about 150 years ago, amounted to about 12,009,000 bushels annually. In consequence, however, of the reforms effected at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the rate of production was gradually Increased to 36,000,000; while, during the of 1881-87 It rose to an av<w Nos 86,000,000” ID ' Cuban Women Crow 0> _ As a rule, the Cuban wfHtfan is round in figure and pretty In feature. Her face Is seldom vivacious—one looks In vain for the beauty of expression. Her hair is often a “glory” to her, and is sometimes of that black-blue shade only possible with the daughters of Southern Europe and their descendants, .though occasionally the Cuban girl varies the program by being blonde, and, to be plain, rather fat. This lady is often a woman at 12, and the mother of a large family at 19 or 20. So pretty In her youth, in age she becomes either lean and dried or fat and unwieldy. She fades early, and, for want of strength of character, Is apt to lose control of her husband, who, nevertheless, still continues to need such i as badly as any man of his times. TSut, whatever she may grow to seem, her eyes never fade. To the last, through aU vicissitudes, they are big and black.