The Landowner 



If all this is done in Denmark, and if Danish 

 landowners have succeeded in leading the 

 development of the agricultural industry on 

 lines at once beneficial to themselves and to the 

 whole country, why should it be impossible to 

 institute some such movement in England ? 

 The Danish landowners may not have as much 

 shooting as their English confreres, but still they 

 have quite good sport with pheasants, ducks, 

 and partridges. They have no hunting, but they 

 live in their own houses — and very beautiful old 

 houses they are. They farm their home farms 

 and do not lose money on them ; they manage 

 their woods on such model lines that the wood- 

 land generally yields the average rental of farm 

 land. This can be said of very few English 

 woodlands. 



Above all, the Danish landowner has the 

 satisfaction of knowing that he is playing a 

 leading part in the agricultural development of 

 his district, not as a noble patron lending his 

 patronage, but as a practical working partner. 



I admit that conditions are very different in 

 England, and Denmark can only serve as a 

 demonstration of what organisation can do for 

 an industry. But we must organise in our own 

 way, and \vhen we English landowners give our 

 minds to it I believe we shall show ourselves as 

 capable of organisation as those of any other 

 country. 



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