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most remarkable dairy countries in the Avorld, and we here in. Indiana 

 have a great deal to learn and to do in dairy lines, it has seemed to 

 me that it is proper to bring a message from Denmark to Indiana, or 

 make an application in our own State to some of the conditions that have 

 existed in that little country. 



Denmark is a small country. Denmark proper, not including Green- 

 land, has about 15,000 square miles of territory, while we here in Indi- 

 ana have nearly 36,(X)0 square miles. So, as far as area is concerned, you 

 can see at a glance that Denmark- is not half the size of Indiana. We 

 have a population in Indiana at the present time of about two and a half 

 millions, while Denmark has a population of about two and a quarter 

 millions, so that this great commonwealth, in population outnumbers 

 the Danish country. 



Twenty-five years ago Denmark was a grain-growing country. The 

 farmers of that region were growing crops of wheat, rye and the other 

 standard grain crops of northern Europe, and were using them for home 

 consumption, or shipping abroad, when it dawned upon them that they 

 could not successfully compete with the great grain-growing countries of 

 rs(.rth and South Ameiica and France, and they realized it was an en- 

 tirely impracticable thing for them to compete with this grain-growing 

 region. That was a wise conclusion for them to come to, so instead of con- 

 tinuing growing grain as most countries would do, and as we are doing 

 very extensively here in our own State, through the assistance of the Dan- 

 ish government, interested individuals from her people were sent to the 

 British markets to see what the people of Great Britain— an immense pop- 

 ulation—demanded in the way of foods that could be supplied by Danish 

 farmers. The result of it was that they reported to the Danes that Eng- 

 land was a great consumer of dairy products and of bacon and pork. 

 Then the people of Denmark took up the problem of the development of the 

 daii-y interests of that country. They sent commissions to England and 

 Ireland to study the dairy business and the bacon trade, and I am sure 

 that they adopted every method that they could to improve their own 

 dairy knowledge and practice. The government had experts working on 

 the subject, and gradually Denmark became the center of dairy knowl- 

 edge. Then agricultural schools began to be established over there, and 

 they had their professors of dairying and Prof. Fjord, who died a few 

 years ago, became in his time the most famous of dairy investigators, 

 and probably no man, unless we except Babcock in this country, has ever- 

 done more to promote the dairy interests of the country than Fjord did 

 for Denmark. Now, what was the result of this investigation? It 

 turned the Danes away from the production of grain into the production 

 of a class of goods that the farmers could make that would furnish them 

 a market that they could compete with the rest of the world for; and to- 

 day Denmark controls the butter market of England; it controls the butter 

 market of the great Manchester eating district and London; and if you 



