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generally attained, which however is still far from being the case 

 — it will be seen that, in the richer soils, much good might be 

 done by draining ; in the dairy districts, by improving the quality 

 of the cheese, so that this as well as butter might become an 

 article of export, and by the introduction of green crops, by w^hich a 

 rich winter-food might be more readily attained ; in the breed- 

 ing provinces, by the general diffusion of a kind of stock which 

 would come to earlier maturity, so that the price of cattle when 

 fit for the butcher might be lessened by the cost of two or three 

 years' feed ; in the flat and gravelly or sandy heaths, by a more 

 extensive marling, and by a trial of the effects of the drain ; and 

 on the sandy soils, by irrigation for the dry pastures, and by the 

 use of spurry for the loose and naturally unprofitable arable 

 sands. 



The reader who shall hereafter travel in the Danish provinces 

 will probably discover many other improvements which capital 

 and time may effect ; yet he will not, I trust, fail to give the 

 Danish people credit for what they have already done. If they 

 are, in some jjartr, of their country, a century behind oUr most im- 

 jjroved districts, they are at least as far behind them also in 

 wealth, and in the other means by which improvements are 

 effected. 



