. The Farm-poultry. certainly veryremarkable and highly creditable to the Danish farmer?that on their small farms and comparatively indilleren;soil, they so nearly approach theproduction of one of the most?favorably situated and progres-sive American states. Denmark, Ijeing a countrywith no large city except thecapital, Copenhagen, the devel-opment of the poultry industrynecessarily Ijecame dei>endentupon the growth of an exporttrade. Continuing the compari-son with the state of Iowa, itmay lie said that tliat statespoultry industry depends uponmarVets outside of the quantiti
. The Farm-poultry. certainly veryremarkable and highly creditable to the Danish farmer?that on their small farms and comparatively indilleren;soil, they so nearly approach theproduction of one of the most?favorably situated and progres-sive American states. Denmark, Ijeing a countrywith no large city except thecapital, Copenhagen, the devel-opment of the poultry industrynecessarily Ijecame dei>endentupon the growth of an exporttrade. Continuing the compari-son with the state of Iowa, itmay lie said that tliat statespoultry industry depends uponmarVets outside of the quantities of Iowapoultry and eggs come to all thelarge receiving centers of theeast. Iowa products are ship-ped much greater distances titanDanish products, but still with-in the country within which tlieyare produced. This is a pointto Ije noted in all considerationsof the questions of exports andimports, The United States, asa nation, may be said to neitlierexport nor import poultry prod-ucts^ the amounts of such being. A W inning \\ hite \\ > dndotte Cockerel. insignificant. But among the states are some that exportheavily, and some that are large importers. Friim ]S(>7 to 1906 the value of eggs exported fromDenmark from £(3 to £1,433,111. It issaid that ti9% of these go to Britain. Since 1903, Danisheggs have in value stoixl at the hea<l of British importsof eggs. As comparedy with other Danish agriculturalexports, eggs stand third in tlie list. Keferring to the fact that when in Ku-ssia Jiearlytwenty years ago, he learned that large quantities ofeggs were annually shipped from that country to Den-mark, and that these had by 1905 so increased that thequantity of Russian eggs imported was ahiiost equal toone-fourth of the total exports of Danish eggs, ; says he made careful inquiry to ascertain whetherany of these supplies were repacked and shipped out ofthe country as Danish eggs. He could find no evidenceto tiiat effect. Along this line he says:
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