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uniformly high quality which is the chief factor in the success with an 

 export trade. 



WHAT WE MAY LEARN PROM DENMARK. 



To show the marvelous recent development in Danish dairying it 

 is only necessary to state that the receipts from cows at the present 

 time are seventeen times what they were thirty years ago. From the 

 million dairy cows of Denmark is exported 200,000,000 pounds of but- 

 ter a year, worth $44,000,000. At this rate, Illinois, in proportion to 

 her area, would have to export $176,000,000 worth of butter annually. 



With all our boasting about rapid progress and a developed civili- 

 zation in America, we are a slow people. The Danes owe their rapid 

 rise and marvelous success as a dairy nation to the fact that they were 



A load of Danish butter for export to England. 



alive to the demands of the markets of the world and strove to meet 

 those offering the greatest remuneration. To secure and hold these, 

 when a practice has been proved by economic value they do not waste 

 a generation or two in adopting and putting it into general use. 



The Danish dairyman understands that co-operation is one of the 

 chief underlying principles for the highest success. This attitude is 

 in striking contrast to that of the average American dairyman. Co- 

 operative creameries are frequently pointed to in America as the only 

 thing in which co-operation among farmers has been successful, yet 

 most of our creameries in Illinois started co-operative, and in a few 

 years either closed or changed to independent ownership. This shows 

 in a most striking manner the lack of the co-operative, trustful spirit 

 among American dairymen, which has proven of such great value to 

 the dairymen of little Denmark. 



