FOREWORD 



By E. J. EUSSELL, D.Sc, F.E.S. 



In the following pages Mr. Faber has taken the Danish text 

 of Mr. Hertel's Keport on the Development of the Co-operative 

 movement in Danish Agriculture and put it into a form 

 suitable for English readers. We have had several accounts 

 before, notably those by Mr. Christopher Turnor, Levy, 

 Wolff, and others, but none covering the same ground as this. 

 Previous writers have described from without : they have 

 visited Denmark, seen the wonderful results achieved by the 

 Danish farmer, and on returning home have recorded their 

 impressions. The present book deals with the movement from 

 within : Mr. Hertel, through his intimate association with the 

 Danish Central Co-operative Committee, and the Boyal Danish 

 Agricultural Society, has access to all the records of the 

 movement, while Mr. Harald Faber not only knows Danish 

 agriculture thoroughly, but is also well acquainted with 

 EngHsh conditions. EngHsh experts have long since learnt 

 to " ask Mr. Faber " whenever any question arose as to Danish 

 agriculture ; they will have in this book a valuable summary 

 of the information he has been in the habit of giving them. 



It would be difficult to find a more entrancing subject 

 than the history of Danish agriculture between 1860 and 1912, 

 roughly the period covered by the book. Up to the beginning 

 of this period the story has beien much the same as our own ; 

 there had been a steady improvement from the beginning of 

 the nineteenth century to the culmination in the 'sixties. 



The system had been essentially one of corn production ; 

 but in order to get the best results it had to be combined 

 with live stock. It was in working out the combination that 

 Danish agriculture took a hne of its own which gradually led 

 to complete differentiation from other European systems. 



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