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figures seem to be available, there were about 1,840,000 

 of the former, of which 1,089,000 were cows, and 

 about 1,457,000 of the latter. In Great Britain (I 

 quote these figures from the Statistical Year-book of 

 Denmark, published by authority in 1909, p. 201), in 

 the year 1907 there were 6,912,000 horned cattle, of 

 which 2,759,000 were cows, and 2,637,000 pigs. 



But the acreage of Great Britain that is England, 

 Wales, and Scotland amounts to 56,387,655, and that 

 of Denmark to 9,375,403, or roughly a sixth of that of 

 Great Britain. If Great Britain, therefore, were as 

 heavily stocked with horned cattle as is Denmark, 

 it ought to carry over 11,000,000 instead of under 

 7,000,000 ; and if it were as heavily stocked with cows 

 it ought to carry over 6,500,000 instead of consider- 

 ably under 3,000,000. 



When we come to pigs the difference is still more 

 marked, since upon the same rough basis of calcula- 

 tion, Great Britain ought to carry 8,742,000 instead 

 of its actual stock of 2,637,000. On the other hand, 

 however, it does carry over 26,000,000 sheep as 

 against Denmark's 877,000, and 1,556,000 horses as 

 against Denmark's 487,000. Still, making all allow- 

 ances, Denmark appears to be, acre per ac\e, the 

 more heavily stocked of the two countries, a\id of 

 course in the matter of cows and pigs its proportional 

 predominance is enormous, especially when it is re- 

 membered that the Danish statistics are six years 

 older than those of Great Britain,. 



This brings me to another quotation from my 

 Danish correspondent whom I have named Jeremiah. 



Jeremiah says on this matter of the stocking, or, as 

 he considers it, the over-stocking of Danish farms : " I 

 think of the time when the smaller landowners were 



