JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ROYAL AGPJCULTURAL SOCIETY 
OF EXGLAND. 
XIII. — Report on the Agriculture of the Kingdom of Denmark, 
with a Note on the Farming of the Duchies of Schleswig and 
Hohtein. By H. INI. Jenkins, F.G.S., Secretary of the Society. 
[Wrra A Map.] 
Contests. 
PAGE I PACE 
Introduction 309 I Dairy Husbandry .. .. 343 
The Land Laws 310 ' Meat Husbandry 355 
Statistics 314 Schleswig and Holstcin . . . . 364 
Physical Features 319 ; The Geest 365 
Agriculture of Denmark .. 322 The Marshes 368 
Farm Buildings 322 , The Labourer 375 
Cultivation of the Land .. 323 Agricultural Education .. .. 378 
A Danish Farm 332 Conclusion 380 
Introduction. 
In the introductory remarks to my " Report on the Agriculture of 
Sweden and Norway," I observed that the agriculture of the Scan- 
dinavian peninsula had not yet been described in the English 
language. This cannot be said of Denmark, for not only was 
an interesting account of an agricultural tour in that country, by 
j\Ir. J. F. W. Johnston, published in this ' Journal ' * so long ago 
as 1842, but a valuable Paper " On the Past and Present State of 
the Agriculture of the Danish ^Monarchy," by Mr. Rainals, then 
British Vice-Consul at Copenhagen, was reprinted with the 
sanction of the Foreign Office in the volume for 1860.t The 
British Government has also more recently published two very 
instructive Blue-books, containing memoirs on portions of the 
subject, viz.. Professor Wilson's Report on the Agricultural 
Exhibition at Aarhuus in 1867, and Mr. Strachey's Report on 
* 'Journal of the Eoyal Agricultural Society,' vol. iii., pp. 100-121. 
t Ibid., vol. xsi., pp. 267-3"2!j. 
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