Denmark Agriculture Commerce

The quality of all Danish meat and dairy products is guar- anteed by nationally recognized trademarks. These trade- marks, by means of a numbering system, which has been developed even to the extent of marking individual eggs, definitely fix responsibility for impure or inferior goods on the actual producer. This plan has proved invaluable to Danish exporters in securing the confidence of the consumers in the purity of Danish foodstuffs. The world's export of butter before the war Effects of the War During the first three years of the Great War, Denmark was called upon to furnish food supplies in larger quantities than ever before in her history. The total export of ani- mals, meat and dairy products rose from $127,- 702,000 in 1913 to $208,- 906,000 in 1916, or nearly 64 per cent. Higher prices resulting from the abnor- mal demand for food brought unprecedented prosperity to the Danish farmers. This was reflected in a wide-spread improvement of conditions in the agricultural districts. Labor-saving machines for ploughing and harvest- ing were imported in large quantities and have served to strengthen greatly the position of Denmark’s farming in- dustry. In February 1917 the submarine campaign cut off the supply of raw materials from abroad. Oil cakes and corn to feed the cattle and pigs were no longer available in suffi- cient quantities. The oils and fats for the manufacture of margarine—largely used by the Danes themselves in place of butter—could not be obtained and the lack of imported