310 Report on the Agriculture of Denmark, with a Note on 
the Tenure of Land in Denmark, in 1870.* Portions of Pro- 
fessor Wilson's Report were republished in the volumes of 
this ' Journal 't for 1867 and 1868. Denmark should be, there- 
fore, by no means a teita incognita to the English farmer. 
The interest which the agriculture of Denmark has evoked of 
late years has not, however, been confined to England, for in 
1863 the French Government deputed M. Tisserand to attend 
the Agricultural Exhibition held in that year at Odense ; and 
two years afterwards it published an exhaustive Report, by that 
eminent writer, on the agriculture of the monarchy, as well as of 
Schleswig and Holstein,:]: to which I shall have frequent occasion 
to refer. Still more recently, three German gentlemen have 
made an agricultural tour in Denmark, and some parts of Sweden 
and Finland (two of them in an official capacity), and last year 
(1875) published their Report, which has special reference to the 
dairy-husbandry of those countries. § 
It will thus be seen that Danish agriculture possesses features 
which have been deemed worthy of study and description alike 
by English, French, and German officials ; and in all probability 
by writers on agriculture in the remaining nations of Northern 
Europe. My endeavour will be to place before the readers of 
this ' Journal ' such a description of the present state of agricul- 
ture in Denmark as will show what advances have been made 
since the date of Mr. Rainals' survey of the subject, especially in 
those features which are most important to the Danish farmer 
and most instructive to ourselves. Instruction, however, does 
not necessarily suggest imitation ; and, in fact, the only points 
in which the best Danish farmers seemed to me in advance of 
ourselves were their butter-manufacture and their book-keeping. 
The Danish Government can take credit to itself for having 
made the dairy-farming of their country eminent, if not pre- 
eminent, in Europe, chiefly through the intelligent initiative of 
Professor Segelcke, aided by the practical skill of Mr. Friis, 
who first put his colleague's principles to proof on his farm <at 
Lillerup, near Horsens. 
The Land Laws. ♦ 
The leading features of the laws bearing on the ownership 
and occupation of land in Denmark must be briefly described, to 
* Part I. of the ' Report. s of Her Majesty's Eepicsentatives respecting the 
Tenure of Land in tlie several Countries of Europe, ISGD.' Publislied in 1S70. 
t 'Journal of the Eoyal Agricultural Society,' Second Series, vol. iii., pp. 536- 
551 ; and vol. iv., pp. 312-320. 
% 'Etudes tconomiques sur le Danemark, lo Holstein, et le Slesvig.' Paris, 
18(j5. 4to., 190 pp. and 13 plates. 
§ ' Studicn iibcr das Molkereiwescn : Eeiseskizzen axis Danemark, Schweden 
und Finnland.' By C. Peterten, C. Poysen, and Dr. W. FleischmftnD. Danzic, 
1875, 162 pp. 
