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all co-operative activity self-help is the watchword, 

 but government gives its warm support to the move- 

 ment and aids it by subsidies. It may be of interest 

 to state that the agricultural budget of Denmark for 

 1904 was roughly £80,000 of which about half was 

 expended by the State on its direct agricultural 

 activities, iconsisting of the maintenance of the Central 

 Agricultural and Veterinary College, research and 

 propaganda work ; while the remaining £40,000 was 

 divided about equally between subsidies for agricul- 

 tural education and subsidies for the reclamation of 

 waste lands, stock improvements, milk control, etc. 



In the matter of cultivation which is devoted mainly 

 to the production of food for the live stock, the im- 

 provement which has taken place is due chiefly to the 

 increased amount of manure which the larger number 

 of stock now kept provide, and to the fact that the 

 farm-yard manure is very carefully preserved and 

 applied to the fields. 



By such measures rural Denmark has been rescued 

 during the past half century from a condition of acute 

 depression, poverty and backwardness, and placed in 

 a very high position amongst the nations of the world 

 in the matter of rural progress and contentment. In 

 effecting this remarkable change it must be noted that 

 a very important factor has been the thrifty, hard- 

 working, honest and law-abiding character of the 

 people, and the fact that agriculture is recognised as 

 being everything to Denmark. In that country other 

 industries compete little or nothing with agriculture, 



