Supply of Undressed Sheepskins. 



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teach them practical farming. The apprentices spend 

 three years on these farms, visiting successively different 

 parts of the country, and residing for a certain period in each. 

 They receive board and lodging and a sum of money from 

 the owner, performing in return the usual work of farm 

 hands. 



Other schools, chiefly of the second kind alluded to above, 

 have been working at different times in Denmark, but have 

 eventually ceased to exist. The pecuniary difficulty is 

 usually the main cause of their breaking up, but there 

 appears often to have been great difficulty (generally because 

 the salaries were inadequate) in securing teachers with a 

 good knowledge of agriculture. Sometimes a school would 

 be opened and flourish under a particular director, but upon 

 changing hands it would have to be closed from want of 

 successors sufficiently interested in the work to carry it on 

 properly. The question of the better supply of teachers is, 

 however, said to be engaging the attention of the State, 

 while the men turned out by the Copenhagen High 

 School of Agriculture are becoming available for such posts 

 in greater numbers. 



The State contributions now amount to an annual sum 

 of £6,600 for all the superior [Folkehojskole}') and 

 agricultural schools together, and the budget of 1896-7 

 contains a provision for 10,000 in subventions for 

 poorer classes at the same schools. The proportion allocated 

 to strictly agricultural education is thus indeterminate. The 

 Copenhagen Superior School of Agriculture is considered 

 separately, and is allotted ;£"i6,300 in the budget ot 

 1896-7. As regards the attendances, some 75,000 men are 

 stated to have attended the superior and agricultural 

 schools between 1844 and 1894, of whom about ii,ood 

 have followed the agricultural schools proper. 



The Supply of Undressed Sheepskins (i 881- 1894). 



The annual production of sheepskins in the United 

 Kingdom has varied but slightly during recent years. In 



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