FARM AND DAIRY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 339, 15 March 1910, Page 7

FARM AND DAIRY.

Denmark is the model to which New Zealand invariably looks when discussing the dairying industry, and it is generally admitted that productiveness has been brought to its highest state of perfection in that country (says a contemporary). The average New Zealander would be surprised at the amount of wealth wrung from the soil by the careful methods of the patient Dane. That country possesses a total area of only 15,000 square miles, with a population of 2,500,000 people, as compared with New Zealand's 104.000 square miles and million inhabitants. Yet Denmark managed to take from its restricted a.rea of cultivable land in 1908 a harvest valued at sixty-three millions sterling, as against New Zealand's seventeen millions' sterling ■worth of exports. That is from oneseventh of the area Denmark produces twice as much by means of the dairying and agricultural industries as New Zealand. Making all due allowances ior the disparity in population, it is very obvious that New Zealand has not by any means reached the limit of its productive powers. There is still plenty of scope for development on Danish lines, for more intensive methods of cultivation, and the application of more scientific measures to the dairying industry, and the Dominion must always strive to attain a position that more nearly approximates to that of its chief rival.