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future organization. But again revival is 

 mainly due to the peasants of the country, 

 who, in the face of every adversity, displayed 

 an indomitable energy and perseverance in 

 buildmg up their industry to the dimensions 

 it has now attained. Forty years ago in a 

 condition of financial and social bankruptcy, 

 Denmark is now peopled with a race con- 

 tented with their prosperity and happy in 

 their independence. She relies entirely for 

 her national wealth on the well-being of her 

 rural community — a wealth derived solely 

 from a huge production of butter, pork, bacon, 

 fruit, poultry, eggs, etc., which are mainly ex- 

 ported to this country to fulfil a demand 

 which our own farmers fail adequately to 

 satisfy. 



Holland and Belgium were also affected by 

 the economic crisis of the last century. A 

 reconstruction of theiy agi'iculture became 

 imperative owing to the new conditions 

 establislied by the low price of cereals due to 

 the large and clieap production of newer 

 countries. Here, too, the peasant owners 

 saved the industry from disaster and their 

 national credit from depression. New methods 



