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of some urban Government department framing and 

 administering regulations. 



In Copenhagen there is a special milk supply for 

 infants. It comes from carefully selected farms, and 

 extra care is given to its handling and transport to special 

 depots in the town ; this is done at a profit, although the 

 charge for distribution is lower than it is in this country 

 for milk which is far less satisfactory from the hygienic 

 point of view. 



The net result of the perfect organization of the 

 milk business is that the producer makes a good 

 living, and the consumer gets his milk at a lower 

 price than he does in England. There must, of course, 

 be a charge for the distribution of milk, but an addition 

 of 100 per cent to the price received by the producer is out 

 of all reason — yet that was the average tariff before the war. 



The houses and farm buildings in Denmark are 

 remarkably fine and form a conclusive testimony to the 

 prosperity of the agricultural industry. The farm-houses 

 are ver\' often as large as small country houses with us, 

 and the modern labourer's cottage is very good, and all 

 are kept in excellent order. Before the war, when dis- 

 cussing the profits derived from farming, I found a very 

 general view that farmers saved and put by in 37 years 

 an amount of capital that would enable them to retire 

 from farming and give them an income equal to their 

 average annual income. Or, to put it in another way, 

 the income derived from the land averaged ^4 per acre. 

 This £4 per acre would represent, say, £1 los. received 

 as rental (88 per cent of the farmers own their land), 

 I OS. interest on working capital, and £2 as net profit. 

 And in many cases the income from the land was much 

 higher. 



There is no doubt that the cultivation of sugar beet, 



