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interesting experiment is being made by Herr Arthur
Borgström, who has established a large creamery in
the port of Hangö, and who buys frozen cream, using
a method which resembles that in use in Denmark
to freeze part of the milk. From about fifty stations,
some of them hundreds of miles away, and some yet
farther off in the eastern part of the country, cream
is now sent to Hangö by railway. During the week
the peasants pour one lot of cream on another, the
whole being frozen to a soft mass; then once a week
a man takes the cream of the whole neighbourhood to
the station, so minimising the expense of transport.
The whole business of these big creameries is new
to Finland, but it is admirably worked. The machines
are foreign, partly English, and the special dairy
machinery usually comes from Denmark. The
industry, however, as has been said, is in its infancy,
and could be developed considerably by obtaining
better cows, better food, and more scientific
cultivation and rotation of the crops. The export of butter
increased to thirty million marks in 1897. It has
decreased slightly since then, merely because the
better wages and generally increased prosperity of
the past few years have permitted the people to use
more butter as well as other luxuries.
To forbid the import of margarine was a mistake;
the great consumption of it in Denmark, for instance,
increased the export of the more valuable butter.
Denmark itself, the country which has to some
extent been copied by Finland in its dairy work, has
not entirely escaped unwise legislation in this
department of its industry. The colouring of the margarine
has been forbidden, and conditions have been imposed
on its sale, some of which limitations have induced
Danish manufacturers to establish factories for
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