1920.] 



Land Settlement in Denmark. 



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A usual rotation is : — 



Lupins — ploughed in, 

 Rye, 



Potatoes, 

 Oats, 



Sugar beet, 

 Rye, 

 Grass, 

 Grass. 



Lupins have been sown at different times, and, judging by 

 the appearance of the succeeding rye crop, the earHest-sown 

 'upins have answered best, due to the greater bulk of crop 

 ploughed in. 



One of the most successful experimental rotations, judging 

 b\- the crop yields, is lupins followed by rye followed by 

 potatoes. Lupins are ploughed in, and never fed to stock. 



A trial is being made of pit ensilage. 



In an easterly direction from Herning, towards Silkeborg 

 and Skandeborg, the raihvay passes through a peat country 

 containing wdde stretches of flat, grass marshes used for 

 grazing both dairy (Black and \\'hite Danish) and store cattle. 

 The latter are mainly Shorthorns or Shorthorn crosses bred 

 from English bulls. Farther on, blocks of large holdings, less 

 well equipped with the cleaning implements seen on the 

 islands, alternate with clusters of small holdings and some fine 

 belts of spruce and pine. Then come treeless stretches of 

 boggy land cultivated on 8-yd. " stitches," with intervening 

 open ditches 2 ft. deep, and again more black sandy heath and 

 small 10 -or 12 -acre holdings, with heaps of marl lying about 

 ready for application. This so-called marl is mostly clay with 

 about 30 per cent, of Hme, and costs about 3s. 6d. a ton. So 

 light is the soil that to prevent blocking by blown sand the 

 railway is protected by close " sleeper " fences. The soil is 

 still cultivated, however, tven when so poor that the coarse 

 white sand shows through the growing crops : only the flat, 

 intractable bogs remain uncultivated and these are being 

 worked for peat. 



One then reaches the Lake District of Denmark — a poor 

 stretch of country, little cultivated, but beautified by heath 

 and pine. Silkeborg is the centre of the wood-pulp paper 

 industry. 



8. Forestry In Jutland. — A good deal of tree-planting appears 

 to have been done in recent years : however poor the soil, small 

 belts of spruce and pine were everywhere seen in flourishing 

 condition ; many of the fields, too, are hedged around with 



