the Farming of the Duchies of Schlcsicig and Holstein. 317 
The figures in this Table indicate with tolerable accuracy 
the relative quality of the land in the several divisions of the 
Danish monarchy. Laaland and Falster are the most fertile 
portions of the kingdom, and in those islands the average 
number of tonder hard-corn at which estates are assessed is the 
greatest ; while in Jutland, where there is a large quantity of 
poor lahd, the average number of tonder hard-corn to each class 
of estate is the least, with the exception of the small island of 
Bornholm. 
Export Trade in Agricultural Products. — The attention which 
has recently been given to Danish agriculture has probably arisen 
from the expansion whirfi the export trade of the country in 
agricultural products has acquired of late years. It is only 
when people interested in agriculture find that the cattle, sheep, 
and pigs, the butter and other productions of a country, are com- 
peting with their own as staple commodities on their best markets, 
that they stop to inquire what are the essential features of the 
agriculture of that country. A glance at the annexed Table 
(III., p. 318) will show that during the five years 1870-74, the 
export of cattle has increased 50 per cent. ; that of sheep has 
increased five-fold, and of pigs nearly nine-fold. The export of 
butter has doubled, and that of lard and grease has increased five 
times ; while the trade in eggs has almost been created within 
that short time, having developed from a little over 30,000 score 
to nearly a million and a half of score, or fifty-fold. These com- 
parisons are very startling ; and their importance is in no respect 
diminished by the fact that the export of corn, meal, and dead 
meat, is nearly stationary, subject only m such fluctuations as are 
due to seasons ; or that the export of cheese, which was always in- 
significant, has recently dwindled to nearly one-half of its former 
proportions. In fact, these statistics show, clearly and distinctlv, 
that the Danish farmer has of late years made more and more 
use of the knowledge which he has gradually acquired from 
Professor Segelcke and his associates, and which amounts to 
this : all the world — America, Australia, and Russia in par- 
ticular — can compete with him in producing corn ; but not one 
of them can produce such butter, nor even such cattle, sheep, and 
pigs, on the markets where the best articles, in the best condition, 
command the best price. In the course of this Report it will be 
seen that these considerations are given their due weight by the 
best farmers in Denmark, and that their energies are chiefly 
devoted to supplying England and Hamburg with these high- 
priced commodities. 
The extent to which the trade with England is direct may be 
judged by the following statement of the imports of the prin- 
