Arizona republican., 1914-08-24
FACTS ABOUT
 DANISH TRADE
The Quality of Butter and Meat for Export to Eng land and the Systematic Method of Their Prep aratiOn >,

LONDON, Aug. 23-Mr. H. Carles Woods, correspondent of the Daily Express, writes from Copenhagen as follows: The total annual value of the goods exported from Denmark amounts to nearly $165, 900 mostly bacon, butter and eggs, and out of these exports about $1OO,0OO,O 900 worth are actually shipped to England.
 With regard to the manufacture of butter (of which about $3S,385, 900 worth came to England in the year 1912, it is only necessary to make few brief remarks upon those things which strike the greatest aStonish- ment into the heart of the traveller. On one farm I saw 400 cows, each of which is milked three times instead of twice a day, and all of which are kept tied up practically from years end to years end, for the sole pur- pose of providing milk to be sold to a dairy for the manufacture of butter for England Again, the method by which a dairy, found not to produce butter of the required standard in quality, is liable to lose it's right to use the official brand, which must be placed upon all barrels destined for export to England, undoubtedly indicates that the Danes fully realize the necessity for exporting only pro- duce of the highest quality.
 But the industry which is by far the most astonishing is that connected with the breeding, killing, and curing of the pigs, which ultimately form which is annually exported from Den mark to England.
 M P Norgaad's model pigs pal ace" at Flanders, which accommodates some 1,500 swine of all ages and sizes, is one of, if not quite, the largest pigsties in the world. Illuminated when necessary by electric light, and provided with a water supply laid on from the main for drinking and washing purposes, this two-story building, which contains about 150 pens, is looked after, and the pigs are attended to and fed, by only ! three men, who maintain the place in state of perfect cleanliness. While the larger animals live upon the lower floor, their smaller brothers who are believed to grow faster in warmer climate, have upstairs quarters. At feeding time a sort of squealins wall may be heard from every corner of the building while the animals await their longed- for skim milk Ca waste product from a dalry) and meal.
 As one wanders round among these distinguished looking creatures, it IS | difficult to realize that ere many weeks or months have passed the whole fifteen hundred will have cross ed the North Sea as bacon.
 At great slaughter house and bacon factory, where TOO hogs arc killed for export to England every week, I saw signs of pigs performing their last journey in all directions Each moment animals arrived by | train or car, entering the waiting rooms," in which they pass the few hours or minutes of their still re- maining life The creatures once | kllled-one per minute during the ap- pointed hours of eXecution-are cast | into boiling water, scraped, slnged sprayed with hot water, and inspect ed and marked by a government of ficial who stamps each animal 1T 1 several places in order tc prove tha1 during life it was healthy, in almost as short a time as it takes to men tion such processes. After hanging
 in specially cooled chambers, for for weight hours, the 'sides"-fol sides they have now become-ar' cured by the injection of brine ant
 by complete immersion. for about fiv' days, in huge tanks.
 The process in the factory is com pleted by leaving the 420O sides, 2lO'
 heads and tongues, S.400 feet, be
 sides other sections of the anifna
 body. to dry during eight or ten days for Danish bacon is smoked in Eng land, owing to the effect of the SC; air upon the meat were this part O the curing performed before It's de parture from it's native land.
 Turning to the export of eggs, O
 which $7,19O,QO0 worth came to Grea
 Britain in the year 1912. the qualit, and average size of every one are as sured by means of holding it agains Ia specially shaded lamp and b. weighing fixed numbers in bulk. Il one room I saw fifty cases, each con
 taining ten gross, ready packed fo shipment to the British Isles. In al
 adjoining chamber were six or elsh
 huge tanks, containing over million preserved eggs. which will be sol'
 in England, of course, as preserves
 egqs during the months of October
 November and December.