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Show SWEDEN'S Kli , IN ILL-HEALTH .Serious Concern Is Felt for Him, as His Majesty Is Slowly Failing. BY ERIC GETTNDMARK. Special Cablo to The Tribune. COPENHAGEN, June A. Very serious concern is felt for thc health of King Gualavus of Sweden, and while It is not considered that his ailment is likely to provo fatal In the immediate future, on thc other hand it would not cause sur-priso sur-priso If tho next royal funeral should be" hold in Stockholm. .Thero seems to be no particular organic troublo, but his majesty ma-jesty seems to bo slowly falling, and change of air and medical treatment apparently ap-parently has no good effecL It Is rather strango that neither thc king nor tho queen of Sweden liavo enjoyed really good health for several years past, and this has meant that more state duties have been thrown upon the crown prince and princess than would otherwise have been the case. At tho present tlmo tho crown prince is practically conducting thc affairs af-fairs of the nation, only matters of the very Urst Importance bolng referred to the king, and, unless thero Js some speedy Improvement in his majesty there Is a possibility of a formal regency being proclaimed. Talk About British Fleet. Tho presence of the British Atlantic fleet in the North sea haa given rise to a good deal of talk, not only hero and In other Scandinavian capitals, but In Berlin as well. It la thc general belief that there ls really a definite tactical purpose underlying what, on thc face of it, looks rather llko a holiday cruise. Now that thc North sea is admittedly Great Britain's principal naval zone, it is of manifest importanco that her officers offi-cers should be acquainted with the coast line which set Its boundaries. Denmark Model Farm. Some very Intorosting llgurcs have recently been printed which show why Denmark lias corao to be known as the "model farm" of Europe. The soil of Denmark is naturally arid as compared with the rich mcadowlands of more favored fa-vored countries. Moreover, tho climate is inconstant, and thc winters are by no means short. But the. Danes they number some 2.500,000 arc of an excellent ex-cellent breed, and their education as farmers is thc best yet evolved in any country. Thc total number of farms is 250.000. with a cultivated area of over 10.000.000 acres. Thc land is thus divided: di-vided: No. of Slzo of farms Farms. Acreage. Less than li acres 6S.000 25,000 From 1 to I'M acres Go, 000 -150.000 From 1V.I to -II) acres -16,000 3,150,000 From -10 to 150 acres C1.000 5,000.000 From 150 to C50 acres.... 8,000 2.100.000 Moro than G50 acres S22 1,150,000 Quite S9 per cent of the cultivators own their holdings, and these in consequence conse-quence control the state machine, with an outlook on life almost exclusively agricultural. ag-ricultural. The minister of agrlculiuro wa-s a roof tliatchor. and four of the other ministers were small farmers. Many Co-Oporative Dairios. Until about 1SS0 'each farmer toilsomely toilsome-ly made his own butter, but then a butter-making machine of great utility -was Invented, and a number of Danish farmers farm-ers clubbed together and bought a spool-men spool-men Today there are 1087 co-operaUvo dairies with KiS.000 members, who ship to England weekly butter worth .C200.000. Then thc farmers took to tho use of skim milk for hog feeding, and a big bacon business was the by-product, taking tak-ing the form of thirty-four district cooperative co-operative abattoirs, with a membership of 30,000. Egg Export Society. In ISU5 was formed the famous Danish Dan-ish Co-opcrativo Egg Export society. It has 57,000 members, and In 100S Its business busi-ness amounted to l,r!20.000. Thc peasant peas-ant Is. moreover, his own banker. There arc 53C co-operative savings banks In the country, and It is now proposed to institute a great central bank to co-ordinate the whole of them. Thc Danish farmer's education Is, unique. Tic is taught his business In school. Experiment Experi-ment stations aio scattered all over thc toy kingdom. Ho knows .ill about bacteria bac-teria and ferment- and nitrates and lo-gumes. lo-gumes. School attendance la compulsory up to fourteen. But there arc forty-two high schools and twenty-nine agricultural agricul-tural colleges "patriotic seminaries" for maturcr students, and It is to these the Dano owes his remarkable superiority superior-ity as a husba.nduian. And uota bene, there arc no examinations! |
