SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
Science in Agriculture. 
How Denmark has Prospered. 
Le NO sone 
[Lhe Department of Repatriation, as part of its educational scheme, 
selected special men of the A.L.F. to study the agricultural methods of 
certain countries before returning to Australia. This article was 
written by Captain W. R. Birks, who was in charge of the party which 
visited Denmark, and it explains the reasons of Denmark's eminence 
as an agricultural country. _ It has been kindly made available by the 
Comptroller of Repatriation. | 
The A.I.F. party of twenty-seven all ranks, after what must have 
been an exceptionally calm two days’ trip across the North Sea, arrived 
in Copenhagen early on the morning of 18th July. 
The first official function of the tour was a formal welcome by the 
Royal Agricultural Society of Denmark at the-society’s rooms. Here 
Mr. H. Faber, Danish Agricultural Commissioner for Great Britain, 
who was chiefly responsible for the organization of the tour in Denmark, 
gave a short address of welcome. <A supply of literature was also 
distributed to each member of the party. This included a detailed 
programme for the whole tour, maps of the country, a guide to Copen- 
hagen, and a publication entitled, A Short Survey of the Danish 
Agriculture, the latter in English. So accustomed have the Danes 
become, as Mr. Faber explained, to foreigners visiting the country for 
the purpose of studying its agricultural practices, that it has been found 
necessary to publish this pamphlet in several languages. Mr. Faber 
‘also drew attention to his book, recently ‘published in English, on 
Co-operation in Denmark. Another book which proved of great 
utility on the tour was Rider Haggard’s Rural Denmark. Sir Rider 
himself visited many of the localities and institutions embraced in 
the itinerary of the A.I.F. party, and with the exception of differ~ 
ences in prices owing to war conditions, his information was always 
found helpful. With copies of these three publications the party was 
provided with a good working reference library for the purposes of 
the tour. 
Following Mr. Faber, a paper on the “ Dairying Industry of 
Denmark” was read by Mr. G. Ellbrecht, Dairy Commissioner to the 
R.A.S.D. This was one of five papers specially prepared for the 
information of this party, and arangements had been made for 
the distribution of a typed copy to each member. A striking feature 
of this address was the comparatively recent development of 
the industry, that is to say that it has increased from. insig— 
nificance fifty years ago to its present dominating position ix 
the country’s agriculture. Accompanying this increase in dairy- 
ing there has .been not only a total disappearance of the 
export of grain, but a very considerable import of grains and con 
centrates has sprung up, while the area sown to grains of al& 
kinds has actually increased, and the area sown to roots and otheg> 
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