CHAPTER III 



AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATION 

 IN DENMARK 



IT is in Denmark that the British farmer will 

 find his most impressive object lessons as to 

 the benefits to be derived from agricultural co- 

 operation, and already many deputations have 

 gone to Denmark to study the Danish system, 

 and much has been written thereon. But the 

 whole story of the way in which the Danes, in 

 their diminutive and, at one time, hardly-pressed 

 country, overcame the disadvantages of their 

 position, and boldly met and were made only 

 the stronger by adverse circumstances, is one 

 that will bear re-telling, and is, indeed, one that 

 cannot be told too often to the agriculturists of 

 other lands who may feel depressed because 

 their own conditions are not all that they would 

 like them to be. 



As left by the Napoleonic wars. Denmark was 

 but little more than the wreck of a country, and 

 even at the beginning of the last half-century 



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