The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-30
MINISTER M. r. EGAN !. TELLSOF DENMARK DAIRY INDUSTRY Arrived in Town Yesterday
 Morning as Guest of
 Chamber
TELLS HOW FARMERS
 TAKE CARE OF COWS
Was Guest at Southern Club Dinner and Reception at Hillman Hotel Last Night-He Leaves
 This Afternoon

Minister Maurice Francis Egan ar rived in Birmingham early yesterday morning and was the guest of the Chamber of Commerce throughout the day. Minister Egan, who is the United Nstates minister to Denmark, is tour ing the south under the auspices of the Southern Commercial congress lec- turing to the people on the dairies of Denmark
 Minister Egan was rendered a din- ner by Father Patrick Turner at the Parrish House in West End yesterday noon. In the evening he was the hon cred guest at dinaer at the Southern club and at S:30 o'clock there was Q reception for him at the Hillman ho- tel At the reception, which was att tended by many of the Birmingham dairymen. Minister Egan spoke for some time on the dairy conditions of Denmark and the condition of the land as whole.
 There are three factors that ac- count for the remarkable condition of Denmark. First there is the educa- tion, then the cooperative system, and lastly the intelligent backing of the government. The farmer Is the heart of Denmark and the government is the farmer. There is at present in the cab- iret of Denmark great majority of farmers; in fact think that only one of the members Is not a farmer 1 mean farmer in the real sense. The landed lproprietors not only supervise the work on the farms, but they work there themselves. Denmark Is a land of farm CTS.
 "The farmers are all banded together in cooperative societies These so- ceries supervise everything for the people. They buy the implements, see portation. The people want education. The children are all well educated The high school of Denmark Is place for adults and they a;st learn the geog- raphy of England where most of their exports go. The children early become acquainted with the steamship routes"
 Minister Egan told of the methods or
 the farmers. How there are inspectors who visit the farms frequently, inspect the cattle and advise the kind of feed for them. "The Danish farmer looKs after his COW far better than the Amer ican looks after his implements he said. They look on the COW as an individqah machine and care for 1t ex- cellently. They are very careful in tnOOSlHB US lteu anu III int lullhlHE. They have a set of laws which enforce clean milking. The hands of the farmer must be carefully washed, the stable must be clean and we'll ventilated and
 the pails must be spotless. Only the
 purest milk can be sent to the creama : tories and there are inspectors to see that the milk is pure. The creama- tories are maintained by the cooper ative society. Even the bacon of the farmer is made by the cooperative system"
 Minister Egan told of the life of the people, how careful they were that only the best should be made. Tt is not a question of quantity with them, but 1t is one of quality" he declared.
 The dairymen present asked a num-
 Der of questions about the kind of feed and the methods employed. all of which Minister Egan carefully answered.
 Minister Egan will be taken over the city today in an automobile. He leaves here at 3 o'clock this afternoon
 for Athens, Ga, where he will deliver his address tomorrow on Denmark and its dairies.