28 ORGANIZATION IN DENMARK 



Danish Heath Society, with the idea of bring- 

 ing the area in question under cultivation. Roads 

 were made, irrigation schemes were carried out, 

 colonies were established, railways were con- 

 structed, and plantations were arranged, the 

 final outcome of the society's work being that 

 25,000 acres of sandy land have been converted 

 into productive soil, 75,000 acres have been 

 planted with conifers, two experimental stations 

 have been established, and 400 demonstration 

 fields have been organized in all parts of the 

 country where heath land is to be found. All 

 this good work is still going on, and it has been 

 taken up in other directions besides. 



It was, of course, in the development of the 

 dairy industry that the Danes mainly found the 

 means of recovering from the crisis which had 

 overtaken their economic, and especially their 

 agricultural, conditions ; but this relief was 

 secured only as the result of prolonged experi- 

 ment and much most patient effort. Originally 

 the butter exported from Denmark came from 

 what were little more than blending mills, the 

 supplies produced by the individual farmers, and 

 representing a variety of qualities and different 

 degrees of freshness, being bought up and mixed 

 together with results that were not always 

 satisfactory to the purchaser, while the expense 



