Yazoo City herald. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1976, 1914-10-30
AGRICULTURE IN DENMARK
Intensive FARMING and CO.
Operative Marketing


ture the small country Of Denmark
Ii eminentlg successful. Amateurs
and experts from almost every coua-
try IN Europe comes every summer
to study the methods by which tho
Danes, Handicapped By a very bad eli
mate and soil that would make q
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New
York 81 Iowa farmer gnash his teeth
in despair, manage to supply English
breakfast tables with those requisites
bacon and eggs and butter With
ont which the healtty Engliahman II
most unhappy.
About the middle Of the nineteenth
century, Denmark was in The depths
81 penury and despair. TOO much
growing grain had impoverished the
aoiI; there was no industries; and 70
add to the nations misfortune, its
powerful neighbor Germany had
seized the province Of schIeswig.
Pow countries, except Ireland, have
Al any time faced 10 foricn an out
loot
The funded proprietors were not
rict, for they depended on the pro-
duets Of the soil; their tenants were
impoyiahed and hopeless. The IN
dependent farmer had only begun n
exist. 1t must bo remembered, too,
that the national shock Of a crushing
defeat and The disruption of Denmark,
caused by war, added 70 The depres-
sion Of the people Americans, aceus-
toned to almost constant sunlight, to
sail that has hitherto yielded food
almost Of Is own accord, and 70 sirn-l
plified land tenures, can hafdly uniet-
stand the obstacles Tint confronted tho
Lnnifh ntplc.
Denmark compriSea 1882 square
miles, II ID only little larger than
Maryland, and very much smaller
than most Of tho etaios Of our Union
Jtbund & a pcninaula, The rcat 81
the country Il made Up ii iAlands,
such Is Zealand, on which stands the
city Of Copenhagen Laaland, Falater
Boinholm and some smaller islands
arc grouped noar BY The populn-
ton IS about 2.7f5,00O The citica, I'M
fortunately, are beginning 10 be over
populated; Copenhagen has now at
least 100000 inhabitants.
Trustworthy statistics show that IA
Denmark over $4,000 parsons are en-
gagod'in farming and dairying; neal
II 10000 Ia 9ardenlngi almost 10000
more in forestrys "a 900 III fisheries;
675,00O HI industrial pursuits; aud
only about 1iS.io0 ii tie professions.
Today, more than elehty-nve per
cent. Of the Danish farmers own their
own farms, and the amount Of wealth,
which Is very evenly distributed. Is |
probably greater per capita than that
81 any other country in the world.
The valuo of the baecn exported Ia
England this year win not be lees
fhnn s28Oo0l0oO. IN 1908. the value
Of butter bacon and eggs shipped I'd
England BY the Danes amounted to
se2,b000O0, That Is rather good
showing when We remember that Dens
mark has a summer 50 short that the
maximum grazing time Tor cattle N
The open air ID fourteen weeks. The
country "a 80 low and flat that amsa
hill Ike 3 mountain. Ii the winter, TIC
winds from the Baltic and he Gerr4an
Ocean have clear sweep over iris
level land.
When We look back fifty Or slseys
yeara, ard see the desolatlon ana (
misery Of these home.Ioving people,
We naturally wonder how they aac-
eeeded IN attaining prosperity withnl
the Inst half century Il
N tho present prosperity 81 the
farmers Of Denmark bishop Crund.
tvig played no small part II 81. Ans
gar was the spiritual apostle Of Den-ll
mark, Bishop Grunasvig may be con.
sldered as The temporal apostle Of 4
The country One was 4 Benedietine !
monk, che other . Lutheran bishop 81
very broad ideas. It 4 quite fitting !
that their Statues should stand On
either side Of the hplendid marble /
church not Or from tie Kings psi ]
Ne y Copenhagen. i
TIE nAnss Who Up 70 1854 had been +
growing ohls grain "a thelr soIl, !
.0und Suddenly that they we're net a. !
: farming unsciantIslcally. bit fhat q
wing 20 the competition Of Ruslsa L
"a the Unlted States, what grain thay h
'nOdueed could net * aold AZ 4 falklt
'rofik They realised that shey must
hangs their methods q farming. But :
! 4 not easy for : people sunk Is :
misery and despair working IN 40 M )
sssEable climate. on . pooF soil. ss !
'resk away from old traditions and +
eelA neH methodsl Blshop cfsndkvi ; /.