CHAPTER X 



DENMARK: AN EXPERIMENT STATION IN 

 AGRICULTURE 



Some years ago I visited the little state of Den- 

 mark, which protrudes up into the North Sea at 

 the western corner of Europe. As I crossed the 

 low-lying moors I was impressed with the snug little 

 villages, the neat and attractive farmhouses, and 

 the buildings in the towns. But most of all I was 

 attracted by the appearance of the country, the in- 

 tensive cultivation of the soil, the use of every 

 waste place, of a new kind of agriculture that I had 

 not seen anywhere else in Europe with the exception 

 of Belgium and Holland. 



The land was not naturally fertile. That was 

 apparent from the car window. Nature had been 

 none too generous with this little corner of Europe, 

 about twice the size of Massachusetts, and with a 

 population of 2,861,000, about half the population 

 of New York City, of which about 40 per cent, live 

 in towns or cities and 60 per cent, in the country. 



Copenhagen, the capital city of 500,000, partook 

 of the prosperity, good order, and cleanliness of the 

 agricultural towns and country districts. The slums 

 were almost negligible. There was little evidence of 



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