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First year Clover and grass 



Second year Clover and grass 



Third year Rye 



Fourth year Wheat 



Fifth year Roots 



Sixth year Barley 



Seventh vear Oats 



The land is in grass only two years. The first year it usually grows 

 a strong crop of rye, grass and clover. Part of this is carted to the 

 bam and fed to the cows green, part is eaten off by the cows being 

 tethered on it, and the remainder is made into hay. The second year in 



grass, the land is tre.ited the last 

 of April or first of May with the 

 liquid manure which every farmer 

 carefully saves in a cistern. In this 

 way they produce heavy crops of 

 grass, for the first crop is generally 

 good as a result of previous ma- 

 nuring. 



The rye is cut green for early 

 soiling, and from this time until 

 fall the cows are either soiled with 

 green feed in the barn or tethered 

 on it, or both. 



The aim of the Danish farmer 

 is to keep the largest number of efficient cows possible on a given area. 

 On the large farms a cow is kept to about two and one-half acres, while 

 on the smaller farms a cow is kept on even less area, as more intensive 

 methods are practiced. In addition to this, enough young stock is 

 raised to keep the herd supplied with cows. 



From their feeding of cake and meal and the stall feeding of green 

 crops, an immense amount of manure of fine quality is made, and with 

 their careful methods of husbanding the solids in a covered manure pit 

 and the liquids in a cistern, and applying in small quantities at fre- 

 quent intervals during the rotation, the producing power of their land 

 is increasing from year to year. This, again, increases the number of 

 cows they are able to keep, and thus from year to year the comitry is 

 becoming more productive and more dairy products are being made. 

 But even the Danes have not yet realized the full possibilities of inten- 

 sive dairying. 



A Danish farm house, with rose garden 

 in front. 



