Willmar tribune., 1909-12-15
DEN MARK.

DENMARK.
There is no other part of the world
where dairying is such a scientific,
careful business as it is in Denmark.
The dairies are mostly under cooper
ative management, and the utmost al.
tention is paid to purity of supply
and to proper milking conditions.
The largest cooperative dairy uses
about $1,000 pounds of milk a day,
and produces twelve to fourteen tons
OF butter week. Pasteurizers and
refrigeratOrs are attached to all the
separators. The separated cream is.
stored twenty-four hours before be-
ing Churned into butter. The separ
ated milk goes into watts for making
cheese. and what is not retained for
cheese is sold to farmers to be fed
to pigs and converted into pork.
There are over thousand good-sized
dairies in Denmark, and they give
large employment to male and female
labor, notwithstanding the extensive
uoC VI upIO-NdlO
DR.. Norman Hansen, we'll known in
the United States, where he lived a
on Greenland history, and who be-
came a personal friend of DR., Cook
on the explorers return from the
Arctic regions, has given a lecture
in which he expresses dissent from
the traditional view of the first Green
land missionary and explorer, Hans
Egede. History has always repre-
sented Egede in the light of great
missionary and has paid little atten-
tiOn to his work as an explorer. DR..
Hansen, after a thorough study of
Egede's journals on the same spots
where they were written 200 years
ago, declares that the mans mission
airy work amounted to little, but that
he was one of the greatest of Green
land explorers. He started numerous
expeditions and made maps OF the
coasts and fjords, and these maps have
stood the test of modern criticism.
Hans Egede, says DR.. Hansen, was
the pioneer of all Arctic explorers,
and, from a scientific point Of view,
the most interesting of ALL
In Copenhagen milk is cheap and
absolutely pure article of diet. The
leading vendor of milk, the Copenha-
gen Milk Supply company, was start
ed a few years ago by some philan-
thropic business men. who We're de-
termined that in Copenhagen milk
should be a source of nourishment
and not of poison. This company
gets every day about 5000 gallons of
milk from about forty farms, where
the most rigid provisions for the feed
ing and management of cows are en-
forced. 1t is all carefully filtered and
drawn off into glass bottles. mechan-
ically corked, and then sealed and
tied by girls who wear clean white
dresses and caps. The cans which
brought the milk from the farms are
all cleaned before their return. They
are scrubbed in hot water and soda,
given a bath in lime water, and any
germs that might still survive are
then forced by sterilization to join
the great majority. All the profits
of this company above per cent go
to reduce the price of milk sold to
charitable institutions. Henry D.
Baker, U. S. Consul at Hobart, Tas-
mama, who has just visited COpen-
hagen, writes that in his opinion the
Copenhagen business men who found
ed this company are just the kind OF
practical philanthropists who should
be models for all the world, where
commercialism and human regard for
the health of the children Of the poor
do not always go together.
One of the striking features of
street life in Copenhagen is the great
number of bicycle riders. In he
morning, and toward evening there
is one perpetual stream of cyclists.
The streets of Copenhagen are well
paved and level, and the country
roads are good, so it is a pleasure
cycling, especially as, with the excep-
tion of some taxicabs, there are few
automobiles tearing about the streets.
The consistory of the city of Stock.
holm has proposed, in the interest of
public morality. to restrict the liberty
of the press.
People who are interested in oppor-
tunities for women's work should get
a valuable idea from Copenhagen.
There are several women who drive
cabs through the streets, and do their
work just as we'll as men; perhaps
better than many men. They wear or.
binary feminine costume, except they
have high boots like the man cabbies.
They seem TO enjoy their vocation.
It requires no physical strain for
which they are not fitted. They do
not see why they should not drive
cabs as much as the men, ana why
it is worse for them to compete iy