4 BULLETIN 1266, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF DANISH AGRICULTURE. 
Denmark lias been an agricultural country since its early history. 
Hers is an old civilization whose people have wrestled with the soil 
Agricultural Cooperation in Denmark — Number of Associations and Volume of Business, 
1866-1920. 
BUSINESS IN KRONER 
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This chart does not include ihe Danish. Cooperative Bank, whose volume of 
business was 1 <),; 51)0.000,000 kroner in 1920. 
for centuries. Even in the Viking period the "Wild Dane" was a 
farmer. Endustria] developments have been restricted by absence of 
coal, iron, and oilier natural mineral resources. The great forests 
