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checked, and for this period of five years the increase 

 in the rural population amounted to 99 per 10,000, 

 indicating improvement in and contentment with 

 rural conditions. 



The figures of exports of agricultural produce, 

 mainly butter, bacon and eggs, from Denmark to 

 Great Britain about the same period also indicate 

 the rapid progress that was taking place. 



Value of Exports of Agricultural Produce from Den- 

 mark to Great Britain. 



At the present time all authorities bear witness 

 to the general well-being and contentment of rural 

 Denmark, and to the high level of education, in- 

 telligence and industry to be found there. Now how 

 was this progress obtained ? The lines of develop- 

 ment were threefold. In the first place fundamental 

 economic reforms calculated to liberate the energies 

 of the people ; in the second place measures creating 

 the machinery for development ; and in the third 

 place technical advance on scientific lines. 



Fundamental Economic "Reforms. — Some author- 

 ities trace the first economic land reform in Denmark 

 as far back as 1781, when communism in land-holding 



