Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-06-23

DANISH FARMING.
In the current number OF the "Con-
temporary Review" Mr.. Alex Tweedie
gives an interesting account OF the
methods OF farming In Denmark. re
ferring to the success OF the butter-
making Industry In that country, Mr..
Tweedie says;
II is only within the last twenty
years that Denmark has had butter
for export at all. and now this butter
making is the chief trade Of the eoun-
try, and the source OF the greater part
of Its revenue.
The Danish farmers have seen the
advlsability OF combining and working
together, and have realised the ad-
vantage OF employing modern scientlhc
appliances. They have also found that
the quality OF butter cannot be main
tanned where each farmer makes II ae-
cordlng to his own method, and AFTER
his own ideas, with the result that In
dividual butter making has been given
The farmers keep the cows and de-
liver the milk, or more often only the
cream-properly separated By centrum
gal rnachines-to the butter making
factories Of which there are some hun
dreds established over tn country.
There the butter IS made on the newest
scleutific and hygenic principles, and n
certain standard Is maintained. The
result OF this combination OF labor
with improved methods OF agriculture,
Is that the Danish farmer today IL 4
rich man with regular business, lu-
staad OF being disconnected. unemploy-
cd, and often almost starving, as so
many Of our own farmers are In Eng
land.
There they toll US that they cannot
grow corn with sufficient profit TO en-
able them to compete IN the market
HNfa4Fa
add that they cannot rear beef and
mutton In competition with foreign
supplies. Granting. for present pur-
poses, that this Is perfectly true, does
II necessarily follow that all other
doors OF profitable enterprise are closed
upon thcm2 Are foreign powers to
grow rich on our gold by supplying
or rather Will not. supply Tor our
selves? Is our land TO be idle. and our
country laborlng 10 stnrve or rush to
swell the evrr-incrraslng population In
the towus2
Danish butter stands very hlgh In
the English market competing equally
with our own, and sometimes eclipsing
1t In price. It's bacon, too, which is I'm
proving yearly. Is equal 10 any, except
ing the very best qualities, produced
in England and ireland.
The breeding Of pigs is usually DaH-
lhH NJ HUs ON tnt contrary, the original
animals come principally from York
shire aud yorkshire. This Is curious
In Itself. Denmark imports our pigs.
futtens them, and sends them back to
US as bacon, ana stan secures q profit
u IL not in mixing butter alone that
we English might earn money. but by
raurlng pigs on the milk left from the
butter making. Pig rearing under
such circumstances is an EXTREMITY pro-
ftablc trade. The money making does
not stop here however. A tiny coun-
try like Denmark makes 100000 pounds
a year out OF her ogg export alone.
l1ngland's import OF eggs 70 about
mar q million a day. paid for with
British gold,
The British peasant has never eX-
celled In rearing fowls, and yet II Is on
a small scale that eggs pay best, as the
peasants of Denmark, Hungary. Bel
gium, France, and Russin have long
since discovered, II is these countries
that supply us with eggs, which are
not obtained On large farms at all. but
rom the village FOLK with their half
dozen fowls or so. These cottagers sou
them 90 the egg collectors, who are
continually going their rounds. and
when they have obtained = sufficient
number they pack them securely in
boxes and send them to- England