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chinery, too, has been universally introduced. The 

 government grants $100,000 a year to six expeiiment 

 stations in breeding. There are, in addition, over 

 100 co-operative local experiment stations founded 

 by the farmers. Cattle, horses, and hogs are studied 

 with as much care as is industiy in other countries. 

 There are breeding societies and other agencies for 

 ascertaining the best kind of Hve stock. And the 

 animals are cared for with all of the skill of veter- 

 inary science. Drastic measures are taken against 

 the foot-and-mouth disease, and tuberculosis is 

 guarded against often by giving each cow her own 

 drinking-vessel. 



Democracy is a very loose term. It means differ- 

 ent things in different countries. But, taking all of 

 the elements into consideration, Denmark is possibly 

 the most democratic countiy in the world. It is 

 democratic industrially as well as politically. Special 

 privileges have been eliminated. There is no para- 

 sitical class. The government is mn by t*he pro- 

 ducers. And Demnark and Australia are almost 

 the only countries in the world where this is true. 

 Ordinarily the pri\dleged classes are in control. 

 And they legislate in their own interest for the pro- 

 tection of monopoly, special privilege, and the ad- 

 vantage of their class. In Denmark, government, 

 education, and the machinery of distribution and 

 exchange are in the hands of the farmer, who has 

 educated himself in statesmanship, in agricultural 



