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allowance of from 3 to 4 lbs. of linseed-cake, 3 lbs. of pea-meal, 
and 4 to 5 lbs. of tail-corn (oats and barley). The heifer-calves 
not wanted to replace the old cows are killed soon after birth, 
and all the bull-calves share the same fate, all the milk possible 
being devoted to the manufacture of butter and skim-cheese. 
The flock consists of 500 ewes, a cross of Cotswold rams on 
Danish ewes. About the 21st of September they run with the 
ram, as many as a hundred ewes being allotted to each ram. Two- 
shear ewes and upwards will drop three lambs for every two ewes ; 
and Mr. Buus finds that the lambs do very well until they are 
weaned, in August, after which their progress is less satisfactory. 
He has tried giving them cake on the grass after weaning, but 
has not yet made the experiment of getting them accustomed to 
artificial food while still with their dams. Latterly he has sent 
some of his best lambs to Edinburgh, and in 1873 obtained about 
32s. per head for them. About 100 gimmers go into the flock 
every year. The sheep are sent into well-constructed and lofty 
sheep-stables, constructed to hold 100 each, about the 1st of 
December, and remain in them until the beginning of AprH, 
getting as many turnips as they can eat, with the exception of 
the ewes, which are limited to a daily allowance of 7 lbs. per head, 
with ^ lb. of linseed-cake or soaked peas. The wethers are sold 
at 18 months old, scaling about 150 lbs. each, live-weight. 
On the poor land, cropped under a five-course shift, a good 
crop of barley is 28 bushels per acre, but on the better land it 
sometimes reaches 50 bushels ; oats on the poor land yield about 
33 bushels per acre, and 50 to 55 on the better soil. Wheat is 
only taken on the better land, and a good crop is about 
4 quarters, or a little more, while 40 bushels of peas is not an 
unusual return. The total sales off this farm average about 
50,000 rix-dollars, or about 4 guineas per acre on the cultivated 
area of 1360 acres. 
It will now be convenient to give a sketch of the farming of 
Schleswig and Holstein, and afterwards to describe shortly the 
condition of the labourer, both in the kingdom and the Duchies. 
Schleswig and Holstein. 
The Duchies are divided, naturally, into two agricultural 
districts, namely, the Upland, or Geest, and the Lowland, or 
Marshes. The Geest is a southern continuation of the dairy 
district of Denmark, and forms the whole of the territory of 
Schleswig and Holstein with the exception of the broader or 
narrower fringe of fertile marsh-land, which borders the Elbe 
and the German Ocean on the western side of the Cimbrian 
peninsula. Proceeding from west to east, say from Altona to 
