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is rented by Mrs. Hansen, lives in a country house 

 that commands a charming view of the Little Belt 

 and of the fertile island of Fyen. Here I was shown 

 a poultry farm where are kept many fowls and fine 

 geese, which feed largely on seaweed, green fodder, 

 and grass. Also there are black and white turkeys. 

 Turkeys, by the way, are difficult to rear in Denmark 

 owing to the dampness of the climate, and therefore 

 most of these birds are imported. On Dansgaard 

 there is a nut orchard of about sixteen acres in extent, 

 of which in good years the produce sells for 1 1 1. I 

 observed that seaweed was packed round the roots of 

 the filbert bushes to keep them cool and damp and to 

 act as a manure. 



The country round Fredericia is very English in 

 its aspect, the roads being bordered with fences of 

 hazel and sloes. Here and there, by the gates of 

 farms or at the entrance to side lanes, stood milk-tins 

 returned by the local Co-operative Factory carts to its 

 subscribers, and containing the proportion of skim 

 milk that was due to each of them. One of the ad- 

 vantages of this co-operative system is that the farmer 

 need spend no money or time in carting his milk to the 

 station or place of sale. 



This day, the 20th of September, was kept through- 

 out Denmark as a kind of Hospital Tuesday for the 

 benefit of the seaside homes for tuberculous children. 

 Everywhere in the towns and at the railway stations 

 were to be seen pretty and well-dressed young ladies 

 carrying baskets of daisy-like blooms known as "har- 

 vest flowers," which are made of linen and mounted 

 upon pins. The price of these tokens is ten ore (a 

 penny farthing), and there was hardly a man or woman 



