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lion pounds exported by the little country of Denmark with 

 an area of less than 16,000 square miles and a population of 

 only two and one-half million people. 



During and since the World war there has been a marked 

 and growing increase in the amount of butter exported by the 

 United States, and the great shortage of butter and other fats in 

 Europe suggests that this increase may continue until the de- 

 pleted stocks of butter on the European continent are again 

 replenished. Jn considering the immediate future of the butter- 

 export trade the fact should not be lost sight of that the neutral 

 dairy countries, such as Denmark, Holland, Sweden and Norway, 

 whose decrease in dairy products during the war was due not 

 so much to decrease in cow population, but to diminished pro- 

 duction per cow because of shortage of dairy feed, are now 

 rapidly approaching normal production again, and are in a posi- 

 tion to export to the butter-poor countries of the European con- 

 tinent. 



Prior to the war our butter exports to countries of the North 

 American continent went largely to Canada, considerable portions 

 were also shipped to the Central American countries, Bermuda, 

 British Honduras, Mexico, Newfoundland and Labrador. Of the 

 European countries England received the lion's share, while 

 minor portions went also to Scotland, Germany, Denmark, Bel- 

 gium, the Netherlands, Spain, the Azores and Turkey in Europe. 

 The chief exports to Oceania went to Australia and the Philip- 

 pine Islands. Of the South American countries Venezuela re- 

 ceived the largest portion, while British and French Guiana, 

 Colombia, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Argentine and Ecuador 

 were recipients of smaller amounts. In Asia our export trade 

 was confined largely to China, Hongkong and Japan. In Africa, 

 American butter went largely to the Belgian Congo and British 

 West and South Africa. During and since the war large ship- 

 ments of butter have been consigned to the countries of the 

 European continents, 



