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the world, a yield which is moreover almost double the 

 world's average. In 1911 her average was 30 quintals 

 to the hectare, while Britain's was 21.9, Canada's 14, 

 that of the United States 8.4, and the average of the 

 22 wheat-producing countries on the five continents," 

 15.3 quintals to the hectare of land.* Denmark exports 

 to other countries nine dollars worth of farm products 

 for every acre under cultivation, although she supports 

 a population of 155 to the square mile. The average 

 net profit on her farms is $15 to the acre. 



She has attained these results in a distinctively mod- 

 ern manner, by assimilating the management of agri- 

 culture to that of the great industries of the times. 

 Most of the products are so specialized as to demand 

 much labor, a large proportion of it highly skilled ; the 

 margin of net earnings is narrow ; competition requires 

 marketing to be of the most skilful kind. Co-operation 

 was the sole means by which such problems could be 

 solved. Moreover, in accomplishing these economic re- 

 sults, she has maintained and improved the social status. 

 Sixty per cent, of her population is rural. Nine out of 

 every ten of her farmers own the land they till. The 

 average 100-acre farm employs three hired men the year 

 round. Emigration, once large, has almost ceased in 

 the three years from 1905 to 1908 it fell from 8,051 to 

 4,558. The home life of the people has improved in 

 every way. Sanitation, home conveniences, neatness 

 and beauty have been secured; the love of gymnastics, 

 of song the rural songs of field labor, of the woods, the 

 brooks, the birds, the love of literature, have become 

 prevalent. The church, formerly a State institution, 



* Monographs on Agricultural Corporations, International 

 Institute of Agriculture. 



