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Show DAIRY INDUSTRY IN HOLLAND ImmaiiM AmotiM of Butter nd ChM exporud FrMT LMM Kingdom Land Is HhjtC -1 The little country1 of Holland el-ports el-ports an i. Immense amount ot butter and cheese. In this country land la worth from $600 to $1,000 per acre, yet these people pay their rents or Interest Inter-est on the Investment by producing butter and cheese which they place on the European markets In successful competition with that produced In America on land of less than one-fifth the valuo. A cheese market le held one day In each week in the towns. One of the largest markets Is In the town ot Alk-maar. Alk-maar. The market consists of a government gov-ernment welgbhouse and a square block of pavement On market day the farmers drive In early with tho cheese they have made, pile them In neat piles on straw on the pavestent Chelae Market, Alkmaar, Holland, Showing Carriers on Which Cheese Is Transported From the Market to the Boats for Shipment and cover them with anvaa to protect pro-tect them from sun or rain. Cheeso buyore, representing commission firms from tho different parts of tho country coun-try nro present. Precisely at ten o'clock the. gong sounds, the market opens, and tho scene Is a busy ono. In about two hours GO.OOO cheese will chango hands. After being sold tho cheeso aro f 'moved on carriers, each borna by two men, to the ofllcIO wolgh-houso, wolgh-houso, where they nro weighed nnd then packed Into boats on the canal near by and taken to tho different cities or stored In large curing houses closo by. |