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go to the other side of the water among the big- coininissiou houses that 

 handle butter products you will find that the Danish butter sets the 

 standard of prices for the butter from the rest of the world. 



At the present time there are in the State of Indiana probably some- 

 where in the neighborhood of 800,000 dairy cows. Now, remember, that 

 Denmark is not half as large as Indiana, but, according to the last statis- 

 tics which we have from Denmark, in 1900, they had in that country 

 1,713,735 cows, and they don't grow beef over there, but they are used 

 almost exclusively for dairy purposes. There were 456 head of cattle 

 for each 100 acres, and there were 756 cows for each 1,000 inhabitants; 

 so, you see, you have a very interesting situation in that little country, 

 and it will give you an idea of the degree to which the people there give 

 attention to dairy cattle. In 1900 Denmark exported 124,500,000 pounds 

 of butter. Most of it was sent to Great Britain. 



About three-lourths of the people of Denmark are farmers, and there 

 is only one lai'ge city, and that is Copenhagen, with, as I recall it now, 

 about 300,000 population. In many ways one sees the importance of that 

 city and all Denmark in dairying. In Copenhagen you go to a restaurant 

 and have placed before you for drinking a bottle of milk, and you will 

 notice at once the superior quality of that milk. I think wherever you 

 might be likely to go in that city you will find a high class of milk. If 

 you would look into the method of supplying that city with milk you will 

 find at the present time they have in Copenhagen four large milk supply 

 houses. One night, about 11 o'clock, the president of one of these com- 

 panies took several, including myself, to the Copenhagen milk supply com- 

 pany's depot. It is an immense establishment, and a whole train load of 

 filled milk cans came up alongside of this milk supply company's place. 

 The milk is rolled out there, and brought into the receiving room, where 

 it is weighed, and samples taken for testing it for bad odors, etc., and 

 the milk goes througli various processes according to the demand. They 

 run the milk through sand filters, the only place where I have ever seen 

 anything of the kind done, the milk being forced through sand to remove 

 the impurities. A thorough method that is necessary for the production 

 of the highest class of daii-y products is followed out in that house, and 

 finally the milk is distributed all over the city of Copenhagen from milk 

 wagons. At that time they employed in the neighborhood of 500 men, 

 women and children to handle the enormous amount of milk received 

 there everj^ day. That included, of course, the drivers and the persons 

 connected with the shipment and all. There were also firms in the city 

 that prepared Pasteurized milk exclusively, so that, as we looked into the 

 matter, we found that the city of Copenhagen was supplied with milk of 

 the highest class of purity. I don't suppose a similar example can be 

 found in the United States of the method adopted to give the people pure 

 milk that is found in that city, and the government of Denmark is back 



