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There is, also, the Royal Aofricultural and Vcteriiiaiy College of 

 Copenha<ion. This institution dates hack to ITTvi, and was known as 

 the Koval Veterinary School, to which ther(> was addt>d in iSAi) a 

 course of instruction in ao-riculture. and its name changed to that of 

 The Royal A«!:ricultural and \'eterinary C'olleoc. The institution is 

 controlled and supported entirely l)y the CJoverninent. In addition 

 to this central college there are 21 agricultural and hoi-ticultural 

 schools in the country, with a total attendance of about 1,000 students. 



EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



In addition to these institutions there are four experiment farms 

 for '-esearch in agriculture, and over 500 demonstration fields dis- 

 tributed" over the country for testing varieties of grains and forage 

 crops, determining the value of various manures, the best methods of 

 soil treatment, etc. 



i'eople's high schools. 



There are also 7S p('0})le's high schools, with a reported attendance 

 of about 0,000 students. These people's high schools originated in 

 Denmaik in 1841. They were founded by patriotic farmers who 

 wished to create more interest in the national life on the part of the 

 young men and women of the rural districts. 



Admission to the schools was limited to persons over 18 years of 

 age, who were required to have had experience in practical farming 

 extending over at least one year. There were taught at the tirst in 

 these schools the usual subjects of study found in the scheme of gen- 

 eral education of that period, excepting that special attention was 

 given to the study of the history and literature of Denmark, and the 

 students were in addition made acquainted with her lyric poetry and 

 popular songs. Later, studies in agriculture were added until now 

 the courses of many of the schools are made up chiefly of such 

 branches of science as relate to some phase of agricultural production. 



The five winter months are devoted to the teaching of men, and the 

 three spring and summer months to giving instruction to women. 



COIVEVION SCHOOLS. 



There are also the common rural schools that children from 7 to 14 

 years of age are obliged to attend. 



COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES. 



Another notable feature of the industrial system of Denmark, and 

 it is in great measure the outgrowth of the educational methods that 

 have been adopted, is the system of cooperative societies. In 1903 

 there were 3,556 cooperative agricultural societies in Denmark, with 

 a membership of 509,121; horse-breeding societies, cattle-breeding 



