4 tG Notices. — Denmark and Sweden. 



knowledge of botany, zoology, and natural philosophy, in as far as these 

 sciences are connected with agriculture, inculcated. The third class is 

 intended to form agriculturists, who may eventually aid in extending the 

 boundaries of the science, and is limited to those who have previously 

 attended the second class. 



Charring Wood. M. de la Chabeaussiere chars wood in fixed kilns made 

 of turf much in the same way that lime is burnt in this country. The 

 advantages, he says, are saving of time and labour, and less loss of material. 

 {Schles. Gesellschaft,8rc 1824.) 



Preservation of Grain. Mr. Gall proposes to place large barrels end- 

 wise on one another, and connecting their bottoms and tops by tubes, which 

 have sliding stoppers. All the barrels being filled but the under one, 

 when it is wished to air the grain, the sliders are drawn, and the grain drops 

 from one into the other, &c. (Allg. Handl. Zeitung, 1825. Nov.) 



Erysimum, or Wild Mustard. In Franconia this plant is extremely 

 troublesome in the fields of barley, in which it rises so high as to be cut 

 along with the crop, and consequently infest the sample of grain. The 

 way the farmers take to lessen the evil, is to steep the barle}', before sowing 

 it, in the drainings of a dunghill till the seeds of the mustard germinate. 

 The barley is then taken out and sown along with the sprouted mustard ; 

 the latter of course does not grow. {Bui. Univ.) 



DENMARK. 



Salt as Manure. In the Nye Landaekonomischer Tidender (New 

 Agricultural Journal), published in Copenhagen, an account is given of an 

 experiment to try the effect of salt in the culture of potatoes and cabbage, 

 but the produce in cabbage was not so good as usual, and no difference 

 was produced on the crop of potatoes, (ii. Band. 1 St.) 



Royal Farm. Near the palace of Frederiksborg the king has a farm, 

 called Faurholm, which has been laid out on a most extensive scale by 

 Mr. Nielson. " I saw thirty-two pair of horses here, harrowing at one 

 time. The land is,- -cultivated in the English manner, and Eilkington's 

 system of draining had produced wonderful effects. All implements of 

 husbandry used, were made under Mr. Nielson's directions, on English 

 principles. Hedjpng was likewise carried on to some extent. Mr. Nielson 

 has, however, reias^gs of a local nature for not extending fencing generally. 

 Hence the king's, farm, in many places, resembles a tract of land in Cam- 

 bridgeshire, which, from its bleak and bald appearance, made me think 

 I was not in England. On this farm Mr. Nielson has reared a most 

 beautiful breed of cattle, from a Zealand bull and a Jutland cow. When 

 I first saw them, they gave me as much pleasure as a remarkable breed 

 of cattle gave Mr. Gilpin. His description may answer to both, being 

 elegantly and neatly formed, rather small, and generally red. Their horns 

 are short,; their coats fine, and their heads small. The Danish breed are 

 excellent milkers, and yield fine beef. I was particularly pleased to see 

 some fine ploughs, constructed on English models, which were to be used 

 at a ploughing match on the king's farm, the first, I believe, that had 

 yet taken place in Zealand." (Feldborg's Denmark.) 



SWEDEN. 



Professor Agardh, who has kindly undertaken to send us the horticultural 

 news of his country, informs us that the greatest improvements at present 

 making in Sweden are by the Count Bonde, on his estate of Safstalis- 

 tow, near Stockholm,, some particulars respecting which he promises us 

 in a month or two. {August 22. ) 



