8 PEOGKESS IN OTHEK COUNTBIES 



of the government ; of the United States of America 

 where general conditions are such that it is claimed 

 that scientific propaganda alone can and does pro- 

 duce enormous results, without any preliminary spade 

 work ; and of the tropical countries of Hawaii, 

 Formosa and Java, where agricultural production has 

 been greatly increased by methods which will be 

 described. 



* Denmark (population about 3,000,000). — The 

 Napoleonic wars at the end of the eighteenth cen- 

 tury had hit Denmark very hard, and the Prussian 

 war of 1864 plunged the country into great distress, 

 besides causing it the loss of much fertile territory. 

 A patriotic movement for the regeneration of the 

 country was then set on foot by individuals and by 

 Societies, organised for various specific purposes; 

 but as late as 1880-90 the rural districts were in a bad 

 way, and the people were leaving the country parts 

 for the towns. During that decade the rate of in- 

 crease in the total population was 325 per 10,000, 

 while the rural districts showed an increase of only 

 21 per 10,000. By the period 1901-6 the rural 

 exodus indicated by the above figures had been 



* Authorities : — 



1. " Report of the Scottish Commission on Agriculture to Den- 

 mark, 1904" (Blackwood). 



2. " Rural Denmark and its Lessons," by Rider Haggard, 1911. 



3. " Rural Denmark and its Schools," by H. W. Foght, 1915 

 (Macmillan). 



4. "Land Settlement in Denmark," by I. G. Stewart, " Journal of 

 the Ministry of Agriculture," Feb. 1920. 



