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the highest specific gravity. 1 Since 1902 selection by families 

 has been used to improve the strain. 



Amagergaard IV. (Trifolium) is derived from the Pajbjerg 

 strain, but has been considerably changed by several years' 

 selection by families. This strain has a somewhat higher 

 percentage of dry matter with a comparatively lower yield of 

 roots than Pajbjerg IV. 



Of Funen Bortfeld two were in Class I. 



Hundslev IV., which strain was in Class I. as early as the 

 competition in 1902 and again in 1906-7. The owner is Jakob 

 Hansen, Hundslev, Ladby. 



Amagergaard IV., derived from seed of Hundslev which 

 Trifolium bought in 1907. 



Of Carrots two were in Class I. 



Hinnerupgaard IV., & James' carrot imported from England 

 fourteen years previously, and cultivated by selection by the 

 firm of L. Daehnfeldt, Odense. This strain has a very large 

 percentage of dry matter. The roots are unusually smooth, of 

 a fine dark-red colour, long conical with a sharp point. 



Helgeness IV., a strain which has been cultivated since 1900 

 by the firm of Fr. Dreyer, Aarhus. Was also in Class I. in 1909. 

 It is a very large cropper but with a low percentage of dry 

 matter, almost cylindrical, only slightly tapering towards the 

 blunt end. Top small. 



For the competition held in 1914-16 2 22 strains of Barres 

 and 1 5 strains of Swedes were entered, and 4 samples of Swedes 

 were bought from abroad for comparison. Six Barres strains 

 came in Class I., one of them being the immediate successor of a 

 strain placed at the previous competition, viz. : 



Ferritslev V. Of the others one was 



Lille Taarfye V., which is a Stevns Barres. It was in Class I. 

 in 1904. The original owner, Ole Olsen, Lille Taar0je, has 

 cultivated stock seed of this strain since 1888. The firm of 

 R. Wiboltt, Nakskov, in 1905 bought seed of 100 roots. Of the 

 resulting families only 5 were kept, and the following year all 

 discarded but one from which the strain is descended. It has 



1 L. Helweg, TidssJcrift for Landbrugets" Planteavl, K0benhavn, 1904, 

 p. 10. 



2 L. Helweg, 113 Report, Tidsskrift for Planteavl, 24 vol., K0benhavn, 

 1917, p. 1. 



