Arizona republican., 1913-08-05
, Copenhagen. Denmark

Copenhagen. Denmark. ~ HERE is a dairy concern in A northwest Europe called Den mark. II takes in whole coun-
 try has a king. a legislature. a police force and a customs service. But for all that it IS a dairylng concern and about the most prosperous and busin esslike concern of its kind that the world Is likely ever to see. The king is the executive head of the dairy. the legislature gives most of its time t. enacting dairying regulations and the police and customs force are kept busy carrying out these regulations. This national dairy has 9 trade mark too and every pound of butter that goes out of Denmark must bear this trade mark and 1t cannot enjoy the right to that trademark unless 1t measures up to certain standard of quality. Moreover. so teaIously Is that standard guarded. so high is the mark set that England (the country whose name we always connect with several of the best breeds of dairy cattIe) purchases some S5O.OO0,OO0 worth of Danish butter year.
 The mere statement of the Danish dairy export trade is astounding. Of butter, bacon and eggs. the principal agricultural exports, Denmark ships each year just q little less than s10O. 100000. Say s9O.OOO.0OO to be conservative. Denmark is, If you are used to New England measurements about twice the size of New Hamp- -I,{ Western areas, Denmark is about one seventeenth the size of Texas. Yet as compared to Denmark's exports Of three farm products of nearly q btl- lion dollars the United States has total domestic export trade manUfaC- lures and agricultural products com bined. of something less than two and a quarter billion dollars Does that sound as though the United States was making as good a showing as it might in exports or in the development of its agricultural resources?
 How is this done? Through educa- ton, cooperation and utilization. Some of the American periodicals have been campaigning recently to secure reform of the American school sys- tenn. The teaching in the United States, they assert. Is too academic and not practical. The Danish school sys- tenn should serve these campaigners well as a model. But tt is not with the Danish school system that the American Commission on Agricultural Cooperation. which visited Denmark under the auspices of the Southern Commercial Congress, is concerned. There study was confined to the CO operative systems of the little king dom.
 As 1t Is a dairying country, indeed the entire kingdom seems to be one big dairy farm, naturally the cooper alive dairies have shown the greatest strength. Also because of the great importance of this industry, the gov ernment has done a great deal for it. Indeed to say that the government aids dairying in Denmark is almost to say that the tail wags the dog. The legislative -ody. at least the lower house which really controls matters, IS an orga arization of legislating dairy men. Appropriations in the interest of the natural industry are the largest and have the first consideration. There are 1900 cooperative dairies in Denmark producing 2OO,OOO,O0O pounds of butter a year. The milk is taken from the farms to the co-Opera- tive dairies every day. The farmers manage the cooperative dairies through boards and this gives them a first class business training and broad ems them in every way. The success ful conduct of the 4,OOO cooperative societies of one kind and another in Denmark is a higf tribute to the in telligence and sound business judge ment of the farmers. One thing is particularly noticeable to the traveller in rural Denmark. The farmers of that country seem to have wider in terests. more thoroughly developed intellectual resources than the farm CTS of other countries. How much this Is due to the educational system and how much to the business affairs thrust upon them through the oper- alton of their cooperative societies is impossible to say. The training given them through the management of the cooperative societies. however. may be more thoroughly appreciated when