Danmarks Handel og Industri

11 By far the greater part of the Danish butter is exported in cwt. casks to the United Kingdom. In 1913 butter in casks and other wooden packages was exported as follows: To The United Kingdom.......... 83,300 tons. To Austria........................ 4,300 — To Germany........................ 1,200 — To Switzerland...................... 200 — The butter in tins is exported to various oversea places, where its good keeping qualities have created a splendid market for this commodity. Besides the export of butter there has lately been a considerable export of milk and especially of cream (1913: 28.500 tons valued at £ 1,250,000) chiefly to North German dairies, where it has been churned into butter. The dairyindustry of Denmark has to a great extent been a model to other countries. Danish dairymen have especially taken the lead in the development of the Siberian production of butter, and the Siberian butter export is largely carried on by Danish firms who have their own branches and establishments in Siberia. Besides this butter rather large quantiles of Finnish and Swedish butter are imported to and re-exported from Denmark, in fairly equal proportions, to Germany and England. In order to safeguard the reputation of Danish butter in foreign markets several Acts have been passed regulating the production of and the trade in this article the manufacture of and trade in margarine and the health of cattle and pasteurization of the milk. A special service to inspect the making of and dealing in butter and margarine was insti- tuted by an Act of 1888 and is under the control of the Minister of Agri- culture; a series of weekly surprise buttet exhibitions, to which dairies are bound to send exhibits when requested, are held in Copenhagen. Sections 3, 4 & 6 of the Act of 12th April 1911 concerning the trade >n butter read as follows: Sect. 3. It is forbidden to export from this country butter containing more than 16 % of water or butter containing other preservatives than salt; to export Danish butter coloured with aniline dyes; and to export milk and cream which has not been heated to at least 80° C. Sect. 4. Danish butter shall not be exported from this country, unless it is made at a dairy (creamery) accepted for control (see Sect. 9) from