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deal more, in fact up to over 13,000 lbs. He in- 

 formed me, indeed, that he had bought a cow which 

 last year yielded no less than 13,230 lbs. Danish 

 of milk of a richness in butter-fat of 4.81, which 

 amount of milk if used for that purpose would have 

 made 717 lbs. Danish of butter. He said that cows 

 of the red Danish breed sometimes give as much as 

 15,000 lbs. Danish in a year, but of course these are 

 exceptional animals. 



Mr. Hansen runs his cows out until the 1st 

 October ; but as I visited his farm rather late in 

 the afternoon, I was fortunate enough to find them 

 in their stalls and to have an opportunity of examin- 

 ing them. They were housed in a byre 90 feet long 

 by 57 feet in width, according to my pacing a much 

 better ventilated building than generally falls to the 

 lot of cattle in Denmark. Five milkers, three women 

 and two men, milk them three times a day, thirteen 

 cows being allotted to each milker. 



Mr. Hansen stated that this triple milking results 

 in a gain of from 600 to 800 lbs. Danish per cow 

 annually over what they would yield if only milked 

 twice. All the milk from this herd goes to the 

 Copenhagen Milk-supply Association, which I have 

 already described. Immediately after milking the 

 milk is cooled in the usual way, and then the cans 

 are stood in a round vat which is filled with ice and 

 water until the time comes to cart them to the station. 



The two bulls were very fine animals, one of them 

 being " Dan," of which I have spoken above. I 

 asked Mr. Hansen how he managed to keep a bull 

 to the age of ten years, since our general experience 

 in England is that they become useless or unreliable 

 at a much earlier age. He replied, " By giving them 



