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Sunday, June 19th. Arrived in Copenhagen. 



Monday, June 20th. Visited the Eoyal Veterinary and Agricultural College 

 and Experimental Station, Copenhagen, in company with Professor Bang, the 

 great authority on tuberculosis ; Professor Maar, Professor of Agriculture ; 

 and Professor Boggild, Professor of Dairying. At the close of the visit, 

 Professor Bang delivered a lecture in perfect English on the best method of 

 stamping out tuberculosis. In tlie afternoon a visit was paid to the People's 

 High School, the Agricultural School, and the Experimental Station at 

 Lyngby, where Mr Lacour, one of the teachers and son of the founder of 

 the school at Lyngby, delivered a lecture explanatory of the People's High 

 Schools of Denmark. The day's work ended with a visit to premises of the 

 Danish Milk Supply Company and the Copenhagen Milk Supply Company. 



Tuesday, June 21st. Visited Kolle-Kolle in the northern portion of 

 Zee land. Kolle-Kolle is a well-managed farm of nearly 300 acres, occupied 

 by Mr Grut Hansen, who received the party and provided lunch for them in 

 the dining-room of his capacious farm-house. The special object of the visit 

 was a fine herd of Red Danish Cattle. In the afternoon the Palace of 

 Frederiksborg and Elsinore were visited, the day's proceedings being closed 

 with a dinner at Marienlyst, where the party had as their guest, Mr Schou, 

 the Agricultural Adviser to the Danish Government. 



Wednesday, June 22nd. An early start was made for Haslev, a village in 

 the southern portion of Zeeland, where Trifolium, the largest co-operative 

 dairy in the country, owned by landed proprietors, was visited ; also the 

 slaughter-house and bacon-curing establishment at Haslev. In company 

 with the managers of both establishments and Mr Olsen, a peasant farmer, 

 and member of the Danish Parliament, the party drove to Bregentved, the 

 estate of Count Moltke, where they were shown over the farm steading and 

 the grounds by the Count's land steward. Returning to Haslev, lunch was 

 served in the little hotel beside the station, with Mr Olsen, the manager of 

 the Trifolium, and the manager of the bacon-curing establishment, as guests. 

 Copenhagen was reached about four o'clock, and dinner was served in the 

 Cosmopolite Hotel with Professor Bang, Professor Maar, Professor Boggild, 

 and Mr Salicath of the Danish Milk Supply Company, as guests. At 9 p.m. 

 the party left Copenhagen by steamer for Aarhuus, Jutland. 



Thursday, June 23rd. Arrived at Aarhuus about eight o'clock. Carriages 

 were waiting, and the party drove to Skipygaard, a farm owned and occupied by 

 Mr Rasmussen. It was typical of that class of farms which are of more acres 

 than peasant farms, and vet cannot be described as large farms. On returning 



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