The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05
SWEDEN'S KING
IN |[L-HEALTH
Serious Concern Is Felt for
Him, as His Majesty Is
Slowly Failing.
BY ERIC GRUNDMARK.

| concern is felt for the health OF King
! Gustavus Of Sweden and while it is not
considered that his ailment Is likely TO
! prove fatal in the immediate future on
! the other hand IL would not cause sur
| prise IL the next royal funeral should be
! held in Stockholm. There seems TO be
no particular organic trouble, but his ma
jesty seems to be slowly failing. and
| change of air and medical treatment ap-
parently has no good effect. II Is rather
strange that neither the king nor the
queen OF Sweden have enjoyed really good
health for several years past, and this
has meant that moro state duties have
been thrown upon the crown prince and
princess than would otherwise have been
the case. At the present time the crown
prince is practically conducting the at
fairs of the nation. only matters OF the
very first Importance being referred 10 the
king, and, unless there Is some speedy
improvement in his majesty there Is a
possibility of formal regency being
proclaimed.
Talk About British Fleet.
The presence of the British Atlantic
fleet I'm the North sea has given rise TO
a good deal Of talk, not only here and
In other Scandinavian capitals, but In
Berlin as well. 1t ls the general belief
that there is really definite tactical
purpose underlying what, on the face
of it, looks rather like a holiday cruise.
Now that the North sea is admittedly
Great Britain's principal naval zone, II
is OF manifest Importance that her offl-
GERS should be acquainted with the coast
line which set Its boundaries.
Denmark Model Farm.
Some very interesting figures have
recently been printed which show why
model farm" OF Europe. The soil OF
Denmark IS naturally arid as compared
with the rich meadowlands Of more IA
vored countries. Moreover. the climate
is inconstantr and the winters are by
no means short. But the Dancs-they
number some $500, ,000-are OF an OK
ceent breed. and their education as
farmers is the best yet evolved in any
25o,00O with a cultivated area OF over
10000. 900 acres, The land is thus di-
vidcd.
Size OF farms Farms. Acreage.
Less than Il acres. $4,000 $4,000
From IL to 133 acres. 49,. 90, 900 450 900
From 49, To- 40 acres.... &c, 900 1,l50.0 900
From 40 to $50 acres. .61.0 900 100000
From $50 TO $50 acres. 5000 2,100. 900
More than $50 acres..-... S22 100000
Quite SO per cent of the cultivators
own their holdings. and these in conse-
qnence control the state machine, with
an outlook on life almost exclusively ag-
ricultural The minister OF agriculture
WAS roof thatcher. and four OF the
other ministers were small farmers.
Many Cooperative Diaries.
Until about 1880 each farmer toilsome-
IL made his own butter, but then a but
ter-making machine Of great utility wa S
Invented. and IL number of Danish farm
ers dubbed together and bought n spec-
men Today there are 1857 co-opera tive
daries with les. 900 members. who ship
to England weekly butter worth .E200. 900
Then the farmers took to tho use OF
skim milk for hog feeding. and a big
bacon business was the by product TAX
Ing the form OF thirty-four district CO..
operative abattolrs. with membership
or $4,000,
Egg Export Society.
In 1926 was formed the famous Dan
ish Cooperative Egg Export society. IT
has $1,000 members. and in 1908 It's busl-
ness amounted TO & 100000, The peas
ant is. moreover. his own banker. There
are $50 cooperative savings banks in
the country, and IT is now proposed 10
institute a great central bank TO co-ordi-
nate the whole OF them. The Danish
farmers education is unique. lie is
taught his business in school Expert
ment stations are scattered all over the
toy kingdom. He knows all about bac-
terra and ferments and nltratcs and e-
School attendance is compulsory
up to fourteen, But there are forty-two
high schools and twenty-nine agrjcul-
turaI collegcs-''pa triotic scmlnaries"-
for maturer students. and II is 10 these
the Dane owes his remarkable superior
ity as a husbandman. And nota bene.
there arc no examina tions.