Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-07-16

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An idUa OF tue Increase Of the Dan.
iih population is given In eloquent
figures. In the beginning OF this
century the total was q, 100000. Of
whom 100000 wsfo living iu Denmark
| proper. Since then the oOuntfy has
lost l,5UO. 700 Inhabitants by tue deoiai-
| alton Of iujUpt ndoucs ~ Norway
and the annexation OF sCu'oswi '
aud Holttcin BY O m,ry, aud yet
IJday Denmark h4s g,4JU,uUO iuhsbit-
auts besides the 100000 Iiviug ~ the
UEitoi s.a,os. Toe population o.
CouUnbngcu has increased nom lJn,.
600 to 100000.
Ouo interesting Dlnilh Institution is
tue "meriing.h0uto" row found IN
nlm.s every town or village Of the
cgultty. 1. Is hall builtaEd supported
ny tho people. Hero The youth meet
regularly W men ami nur, Tot tho
pufpote Of Iraciiciug physical culture,
"gymnasllc, :" here tho children learn
dancing aud Lsts meetings. are held
ami lectures given On tbs burning
qucstlons OF the day. Ia the manage.
men, Of tho ,xercscs held 10 these
"m1cliug-houss," women take much
lutsfesl.
Agriculture Il one Of tho chief re-.
srutces d tho country and during the
isst Thirty years the yicld u grliu
has been increased by twoniy.i5ur
million bushels aud tia, Of root
crop by eighty million bu1heP. Dur.
leg the came period l,li2 square
heather snd sea and 10000 new
homes Tor farmers founded. But
dairy farming has had the greatest
development, Of lats yeats. Ten years
ago tho peasants ventutsd upon tho
system Of cooperative steam dairy
farming. Farmers In a certain district
Join In building a large steam dairy
with centrifugal sepAfators, loo cOoiors,
o,c. 70 this dairy they deliver the
whole " their produce Of milk, Tor
which they arc paid. They own the
dairy Jointly aud tue sutplus IL uiyidsj
among them. They are pledged to
ieud aud care for their cattle accord
ing 10 given, ratiousl system. BE-
tween 1855 anu 1890 Rbouttwo hundred
such dAifits we're built esch year, aud
ut present ninety per cent Of all the
farming communities own a steam
dairy, The quality Of the butter pro.
duoed has improved, the price fltca
and the export increased ouyIm usly.
Ia 1870 the export OF Dauish butter
Amounted 70 10000 cwt. In 1894 the
export 10 England alone was /, lO2, 1913
cwt., almost halt Of tho total import Of
that country. But Danish butter ~
also finding IL, way to france, sweden
AMI other countries, where IL succcss.
iully completes with rival products.
Tue remarkable success gained by
tho farming population, no, only with
regard 10 this Que article but als5
many others, IL due entirely TO their
high intelligence and rational meth.
ode, chief among which Is co.sperA.
ton. But little aid has been given by
legislative measures. Tnis Ia a lesson
that should not 10 lost on those who
seem TO think that government IL the
creator OF nSIIonL prosperity. Il lie
claimel that Denmark now Is the second
richest county In Europe, ~ her ma.
tional wealth, In proporlloa to the
numbot OF her population, Ia second
only To that Of England, aud this
result has been reached not because Of
wise logirlAtion tut rather Ia tho lacB
OF many unwiso moAsutos and
policy not always entirely friendly to
the iutUrcs's Of the iarmoTs.