DENMARK'S WONDERFUL OUTPUT

Shannon News, 8 November 1927, Page 2

DENMARK'S WONDERFUL OUTPUT

OF BUTTER AND BACON.

Why 4t is that the British farmer

is gradually going out of the dairy business altogether, Denmark is able to export vast and increasing quantities of dairy produce to Great Britain ? asks the special correspondent of the ‘Morning Post.’ This aspect of British agricultural depression merits careful attention, because it is due to at least one ascertainable cause , in time are unprofitable, and when the has a legitimate and avoidable grievance.

Next to bacon the export of butter

to Great Britain is one of the most important of all Danish exports. In 1925 it amounted to 83,000 tons, with a value of 381 million crowns, (approx. £20,000,000), or more than onefifth of the entire value of Danish exports. In 1926 it ros-e to 94,00<J tons which equivalent tQ 72 percent, of the whole Danish export of butter. .So profitable indeed is this export that in 1925 the Danes were content to consume at home only 18,000 tons out of the 141,000 tons which they produced that year, and to produce 70,000 totis of margarine for home consumption in place of butter. Denmark, moreover, is the largest single exporter of butter to Great Britain, for in 1926 she sent onethird of the entire import of butter into Great Britain, and nearly twice as much as that sent by the second largest exporter, New Zealand. The Danes have also a comfortable sideline export in condensed milk to Great Britain, which takes annually over 20,000 tons of this product, or from twice to four times as much as all other countries put together. Why, then, is Denmark able to do this? The answer is to be found! to no small extent in the prices at which British wheat offals are exported there in order to feed, the milch cows. Denmdrk is dependent to the extent of nearly 50 per cent, upon imported bran for her milk production.