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plough three times for wheat, the land being first 

 broken up in June so soon as the hay is carted. 

 What I saw in progress was the third ploughing. 

 The soil of this field was of an admirable mixed 

 character, neither heavy nor light, and the wheat 

 sown was a Danish sort known as u small grain." 



Also I saw some mangolds, of which root the 

 extraordinary crop of 50 tons the acre is frequently 

 grown at Ourupgaard. As the reader may be aware, 

 in England we rarely use mangolds before Christmas, 

 and frequently keep them far into the following spring 

 or even summer. In Falster island, however, as I 

 was informed by Mr. Tesdorpf, they are fed to the 

 beasts as soon as pulled, half a hundredweight being 

 given to each cow daily. He added that they rot 

 by the end of March, and in April are no good at 

 all. In addition to this mangold the cows receive 

 unchopped wheat, oat, and barley straw at nights, 

 from 6 to 8 lbs. of cake and corn, of which 2 or 3 lbs. 

 will be corn, and, if mangolds are not available, 

 60 lbs. of schnetzel or sugar-beet refuse. This, 

 however, is not fed to cows that are near calving, 

 as it is found to cause the calves to scour. Nor 

 under Mr. Busck's rules is it ever given to those 

 cows that produce what is known as " children's 

 milk." 



I saw the place where this schnetzel is stored. 

 Two enormous silos or pits, 12 feet wide by 4 feet 

 deep and 900 feet in length, have been dug on either 

 side of a roadway. They are so arranged with a 

 gradual slope that the water which gathers in them 

 flows away through large drain-pipes set at the end 

 of the trenches. Their storage capacity is 2500 tons 

 of schnetzel, which, if I remember right, is conveyed 



