DANISH 4H UNIONS MAKE GOOD PROGRESS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6803, 5 January 1929, Page 11

DANISH 4H UNIONS MAKE GOOD PROGRESS

COPENHAGEN, Nov. 28,

Prof. Lars Frederiksen of the Royal Agricultural College, Copenhagen, and chairman of Denmark’s "4 H” Unions, to which Mr. Rockefeller last year gave £14,000, has just returned, to Denmark from several months’ visit to the United States as tho invited guest of the movement. Work for the Danish ‘4 H” (hand, head, heart, health) is already in full swing. In Denmark they each have a plot of land to cultivate and one or more pigs to rear, live stock to look atfer, or they learn milking, poultry-farming, preserving, canning, sowing, etc. They pay rent and pay for all they require. They are received from the age of 10 years, but the best age is from 14 to 20. Commenting upon American farming, the professor thinks the farmers of tho United States grumble unreasonably and over conditions which Danish farmers patiently endure.. American butter, lie says, is bad. There aro soma American cows which beat Danish records of milk per cow, but on an average Danish cows yield 50 per cent, moiv milk than the American.