1920.] 



Land Settlement in Denmark. 



1073 



Rye (or wheat). 

 Roots, 

 Barley, 

 Roots, 



Legume and cereal mixture, 

 Grass, 



Grass (with half fallow), 

 Oats (or wheat) . 



There is no permanent grass on this colony, and except for 

 some low-lying meadows in the islands and the marshes of 

 Jutland there is very little permanent grass in the country. 



Very little artificial manure seems to be used by sma 1 holders: 

 the roots may get some nitrate of soda and superphosphate, but 

 in the main reliance is placed on farmyard manure. Dung is 

 spread on the second year grass about mid ummer after once 

 grazing or mowing ; the grass is then half-fallowed for autumn 

 corn ; a proportion of the dung is applied, usually in early 

 winter, for roots. 



Liquid manure is used on the grass and is applied without 

 dilution when the grass is wet, chiefly in autumn and spring. 



Excellent crops of rye are grown. 



Roots consist of mangolds, sornetimes sugar beet or sugar 

 mangold, swedes and turnips. The land is well worked ; the use 

 of the roller and horse hoe for conserving moisture is thoroughly 

 understood. There is a saying in Denmark to the effect that 

 if it is possible to walk over a root field without getting one's 

 sabots filled with soil it is not in a proper condition of tilth. 



Roots are usually sown on the flat in 18 to 20 -in. rows and 

 are thinned out 8 in. apart. Good yields are obtained : in 

 one case a small holder's crop last year worked out at 35 tons 

 per acre. It is a remarkable fact that throughout the whole 

 of our tour not a single root failure was seen, even on the \'erv 

 fight lands of Jutland — this notwithstanding the tact that 

 the rainfall for May was only i mm. as compared with a 

 40 mm. average, and that there was practically no rain during 

 our visit in the first half of June. 



The grass crops consisted of approximately equal proportions 

 of rye-grass, cocksfoot and tall oat grass, with lesser amounts 

 of Timothy, red clover and alsike. Obvioush' a mixture of 

 this kind cannot form a close bottom, and most of the fields 

 which, at the time of our visit, were in full flower, were thinner 

 than we like to see in this country. On small holdings and in 

 the islands generally all cattle are tethered at grass. In 

 Jutland where the holdings run larger and where there are 

 numerous low-lying meadows the cattle often graze at large. 



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