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about 1896. Danish Agriculture, on the other hand, was able 

 not only to weather the storm, but even to make headway all 

 the time. The improvement in dairying reacted on the arable 

 farming; the export of butter rose from 10,300 tons per 

 annum in the late seventies to 100,000 tons per annum before 

 the outbreak of war, and the yield of wheat rose from 30-9 

 to 35 '5 bushels per acre. 



3 r How out of the success of Denmark's great pig and bacon 

 industry, and side by side with its development, the poultry 

 industry was established. 



4. How out of the steady work done in reclamation and 

 afforestation sprang many rural industries which assisted materi- 

 ally in the reconstruction of the nation. The rural industries of 

 Denmark are the natural outcome of the main lines of its agricul- 

 tural production. 



5. How the agricultural machinery used in Denmark is built 

 to suit the different soils, and on the lines laid down by the 

 farmer, and not on those of the manufacturer. 



6. How the system of agricultural education and technical 

 instruction is based on the knowledge of what the markets want, 

 not on what the producer thinks they should have. 



But above all, and beyond all, the Danes assert that in all 

 agricultural production not merely must they consider how to 

 produce, but how the conditions of production affect the producer. 



Mr. Harris prefaced his paper with an interesting summary 

 of the manner in which Denmark recovered after the 

 disastrous war of 1864, and, in concluding it, he said : 



Phcenix-like, Denmark has arisen from her ashes, a greater 

 force among the nations of the earth than she has ever been. 

 Re-establishing herself by a breadth of vision rare amongst 

 peoples, by a love of knowledge which has been stimulated 

 by her glorious traditions, by a recognition of the fact that 

 out of the past is the present moulded, by love of art for art's 

 sake, by securing a recognition of the fact that to have healthy 

 minds it is necessary to develop healthy bodies, that education 

 is the outcome not so much of book-learning as of a recognition 

 of the humanities ; that mind culture must precede soil culture ; 

 that self-government by the people through the people in associa- 

 tion is much better than super-imposed government by the 

 State ; that all technical instruction, whether agricultural 

 or industrial, must be based on what the market wants, not 

 what the producer thinks the market should have ; and last, 

 but not least, that the agricultural industry is the mother industry 

 from and through which all other industries are nourished and 

 sustained that no nation ever languished when its Agriculture 



