546 Agricultural ExMhition at Aarhuus {Denmarli). 



(lid ; but certainly not more than it deserves. In countries like 

 Denmark and our own, with such an extent of coast line, the sea 

 offers a field for occupation where the harvest is of a permanent 

 and well-nigh illimitable character — where no seed or seed-time 

 has to be considered, and where the crop is always ready to be 

 gathered in when the elements permit the tillers to leave their 

 homes. 



In Holland, in France, in Norway, and in Sweden, special 

 exhibitions for illustrating and developing the fishing resources 

 of the respective countries have already been held. At the 

 recent meeting at Vienna it formed an interesting department, 

 and announcements have been made public of an exhibition to 

 be again held in Holland in the coming summer of 1867, for 

 the same object. 



Would it not be well for us to follow the example thus set us 

 by countries whose natural fishing facilities are not greater, and 

 whose food pressure is certainly not so great as our own. 



The " Live Stock " were, as usual, the great object of attrac- 

 tion on the single day set apart for their exhibition. 



Another circumstance tended no doubt to swell the numbers 

 that attended the meeting on that day — the presence of the 

 King, accompanied by the Crown Prince, the Czarowich, and 

 the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia. Each department was visited 

 in detail, and the greatest interest was manifested by his Majesty 

 in everything that tended to illustrate the present or to improve 

 the future condition of the agriculture of the country. 



The "Live Stock" was arranged in four divisions — horses, 

 horned cattle, sheep, and swine — and these again were sub- 

 divided into different classes. 



The several " Horse " classes were very well represented, and 

 contained some very well-shaped useful animals, whether for 

 road or purely agricultural work. Those selected by the judges 

 as worthy of a prize had to substantiate their claims to it by per- 

 forming in harness, in a satisfactory manner, a given distance, 

 with a certain weight of draught in a certain time. The horses 

 were thus seen in action at the work for which they were stated 

 to be suitable, and their qualities, good or bad, were thus brought 

 out more prominently and more fairly than would be done by 

 the ordinary mode of judging. 



The Jutland horse is generally a well - bred, good - shaped 

 animal, from 15 to 16 hands high, rather heavy and sluggish in 

 appearance, and suitable for road as well as field work. The 

 prevailing colours were bays and browns. Some years ago some 

 English thoroughbred stallions were imported for improving 

 their breed ; and more recently, Cleveland blood has been 

 resorted to for the same purpose, but in neither case were the 



