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Danish public, have required fuller explanation, and other 

 alterations, excisions and additions have been made. In this 

 selection of material I have been guided by the experience 

 gained through many years by answering inquiries from Great 

 Britain and Ireland and from the British Dominions. Although 

 fully conscious of many shortcomings, and also of the difficulty 

 of adapting for use in one country what has had a natural 

 development under the different conditions existing in another 

 coimtry, it is my fervent hope that this book may be of service 

 in British lands where the question of co-operation in agriculture 

 is engaging the serious consideration of leading men. It is 

 this hope which has prompted me to bring the work to the 

 notice of the British pubHc. 



An Appendix has been added giving various tables compiled 

 and condensed from official statistics and expressed in English 

 weights and measures. These tables should help to show the 

 development which has taken place in Danish agriculture 

 during the last thirty to fifty years with regard to rural tenure, 

 cultivation of crops, live stock, and import and export of 

 agricultural produce, 



HARALD FABER. 



London, December, 1917. 



