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co-operative dairies, and to allow of the prepara- 

 tion and publication by the Society of detailed 

 statistics respecting the dairy industry. The 

 Pellervo has also received about £1,200 in 

 donations. 



The results already obtained with such modest 

 finances are distinctly good ; but they are re- 

 garded by the leaders of the movement as having 

 chiefly laid the foundation for better results still 

 to come. There is even the hope that at some 

 future time Finland may stand more on an 

 equality with Denmark in supplying butter for 

 British breakfast tables ; and if we are to go 

 on importing prodigious quantities of dairy pro- 

 duce from abroad, there is no reason why Fin- 

 land — a country which has not only won much 

 cordial sympathy from the English people, but 

 takes from us textile goods, machinery, tools, 

 artificial manures, railway rails, railway engines, 

 and other things besides, fully equal in value to 

 what she sends to us — should not have a fair 

 share of our patronage. 



But whatever the further development of 

 agriculture in Finland may be, the one thing 

 certain is that the organization of her dairy 

 industry has enabled her to fully recover from 

 the agricultural depression that overtook her 

 twenty years ago. Apart from the unfavourable 



