The World's Columbian Exposition 1893. Chicago, U.S.A. 1893
Official Catalogue With Illustrations issued by the Royal Danish Commission

_________ 8 DENMARK a value of 249 000 000 kr.1), somewhat above 200 000 000 kr. worth was due to agriculture. In 1841 Denmark exported 84 400000 kr. worth of butter, 24000000 kr. worth of beacon and ham, 21400000 kr. worth of horned cattle, 14740000 kr. ivorth of swine and pigs, 4240000 kr. worth of horses and foals, etc. As a matter of course great efforts are made to further develop agriculture. The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College of Copen- hagen disposing of a large yearly budget teaches all branches of agri- cultural knowledge with a staff of forty professors and teachers, to say nothing of a highly developed. Experimental laboratory and the great number of consulting agriculturist, appointed, by the State, and. spread, all over the country and. abroad, and whose business it is to promote Danish agriculture in furthering its production of butter and live slock, enlarging its markets abroad, etc. Not only the State, however, is very active in that respect. A num- ber of private societies are working to the same end, as, f. i., the deser- ving Royal Danish Agricultural Society, founded in 1764, operating, in connection with ninety Farmer’s Societies spread all over the country, by means of agricultural shows and expositions, lectures, prizes for well cultivated cottage allotments, the publication of periodicals, etc. Danish, agriculture is in a state of great animation having taken, these last years, an enormous step from breadstuff production to the rai- sing of live stock and butter making. During the period 1876-80 Den- mark still maintained a surplus exportation of breadstuff amounting to about 28 000 000 kr. a. year; during the years 1881-84 ^e value of this exportation dropped to 4 000 000 kr., and to-day the country is sooner importing than exporting breadstuff whilst, at the same time, the exportation of live stock and animal produce has increased reaching the large amounts quoted above. At this sudden and violent change of the Danish agriculture the farmers have displayed a. great deal of energy; 4 I kr. = 26 to 27 cents. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ------------------------...: ______________________________________________________________________________________________ . ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ . ■ • ■ . . • ■