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some of the teachers lecture in both schools. The students are 

 from 18 to 25 years of age, and, as they have all had already a good 

 practical training on the farms, the instruction given is purely 

 theoretical, the aim being to connect the principles of agricultural 

 science with practical facts, and to render their daily work more 

 attractive to them than before by transforming their " knowing 

 how " into " understanding why." 



The Danes acknowledge a debt of gratitude to Scotland as 



SIMMER STUDENTS OF THE POPULAR HIGH SCHOOL, ASKOV 



having given them their first impulses to agricultural progress. 

 Fifty years ago the first students were sent from Denmark to 

 Scotland to study agriculture. Several came over thirty years ago, 

 and it is still the practice for some farmers' sons to spend from six 

 months to a year in Scotland, some as pupil-boarders with fjxrmers, 

 and othei-s taking their places in the bothies and earning their 

 living like ordinary ploughmen. In several respects, the pupil 

 has gone ahead of the teacher. 



The Commission visited the Agricultural Schools at Lyngby, 

 Ladelund and Dalum. At Lyngby the school was not in session, 

 so only the equipment was seen. Attached to the school here is 

 a remarkable historical collection of agricultural implements and 

 machinery, models, pictures, maps and charts demonstrating the 

 developments of Danish agriculture and forestry. 



There is also in a separate building a permanent exhibition of 



