'it)2 'eO-DPERAHON IN DANISH AGRICULTURE 



to be in receipt of State grants. Of these 21 were formed 

 before 1890 ; in the following quinquennial periods the follow- 

 ing numbers were formed : — 



1890-1894 

 1896-1899 



33 societies. 

 45 „ 



1900-1904 ... 

 1905-1909 ... 



59 societies. 

 112 



Further information about State supported societies is 

 given as follows : — 



The number of farms, with horses, attached to horse- 

 breeding societies was, both absolutely and relatively, con- 

 siderably larger in Jutland than on the islands. 



Thus it appears that in 1909 less than every tenth farm 

 on the islands, with about one-fifth of all horses, were connected 

 with a Horse Breeding Society, while in Jutland nearly every 

 fifth farm, with more than one-third of all horses, were so 

 connected. 



Grouping the holdings according to size (deahng here only 

 with those in country districts), and enumerating, in each 

 group, the holdings and the horses on these connected with 

 Horse Breeding Societies, we find, as we might have expected, 

 that the large farms take a comparatively greater part in the 



