Danish Trade in Dairy Produce. 



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tion before Siberian butter will really acquire a solid hold on 

 the foreign market. 



Danish Trade in Dairy Produce in 1900. 



In a report to the Foreign Office on the Trade and Agri- 

 culture of Denmark in 1900, Captain Boyle, Kis Majesty's 

 Consul at Copenhagen, gives the following account of the 

 Danish trade in butter, bacon, and eggs in 1900. The 

 export of butter reached 1,531,000 cwts., which is an increase 

 of about 95,000 cwts. over 1899, when the total export was 

 1,436,500 cwts. ; 36,200 cwts. was exported in tins, all the 

 rest was in casks. Danish produce under this head w T as 

 1,189,300 cwts., and this figure is about the same as 1899, 

 when it was 1,188,200 cwts. As usual, the greatest amount 

 of butter exported went to the United Kingdom, viz., 

 I ^475> 000 cwts. out of a total of 1,530,000 cwts. 



Considerable quantities of Russian and Siberian butter are 

 imported at Copenhagen. In 19CO the amount was 275,000 

 cwts., which is 100,000 cwts. more than in 1899. Since 

 the Siberian Railway has been opened. Copenhagen has 

 become the centre for this trade, and for the distribution of 

 Russian butter to England, Germany, and for home con- 

 sumption in Denmark. 



The average butter quotations at Copenhagen were about 

 the same as in 1899, but higher than in the preceding years. 



The home consumption of margarine from April 1st, 1899, 

 to March 31st, 1900, was 366,168 cwts., against 322,411 cwts. 

 the year before, or an increase of 43,757 cwts. The total 

 production of margarine in Denmark was 325,309 cwts. 



Danish bacon is stated to have obtained higher prices on 

 the British market during 1900 than in 1899. The London 

 quotation was about ijd. per lb. higher than in 1899. 

 The exporis of bacon from Denmark to the United Kingdom 

 dropped from 1,320,000 cwts. in 1899, to 1,186,000 cwts. in 

 1900; but in spite of this the value increased by about 

 ^"55,000, viz., from ^1,640,000 in 1809, t0 £ 1 >695> 000 in 1900. 



