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has hitherto very much resembled our own, and the poor-rate 
has fluctuated in different parishes according to the laxity or the 
strictness of the poor-law officers. I believe, however, that the 
whole question is now under consideration, and that consider- 
able modifications of the existing law will shortly be brought 
before the Danish Parliament. It is to be hoped that those 
modifications will tend to encourage the development of such 
excellent institutions as the Ourupgaard Benefit Society and 
Co-operative Store. 
Agricultural Education. 
As in other Continental countries, the education of the future 
generation of farmers is carefully provided for. In Denmark, 
only the higher education is under State management and con- 
trol, and is provided for at the Royal Agricultural and Veterinarv 
College in the outskirts of Copenhagen. It is not necessary to 
describe the arrangements of this institution, for, admirable though 
they are, they do not differ in principle from those of similar 
institutions in other countries. To the college is attached an 
experimental farm, which is managed with considerable skill 
and care. Amongst the experiments which were being con- 
ducted at the time of my visit were several series of alternate 
courses of cropping : for instance, wheat taken in alternate years, 
the intervening crops being beans, clover, roots, &c. ; also barley 
in alternate years, with the same intervening crops ; and again 
oats, clover, and roots, each treated as the main crop with a series 
of intervening ones. The clover- and root-experiments were soon 
brought to an end by the land refusing to grow them in alternate 
years after a few courses ; but the others have now been in ope- 
ration some time. Experiments were also being conducted on 
the operation of different manures on different crops ; on the 
effect of drilling at closer or wider intervals, and on the com- 
parative effect of drilling and broadcasting ; on sowing various 
seeds at different depths ; and on the length of time that different 
species of grass and clover, as well as sainfoin and lucerne, can 
be allowed to stand advantageously when cut every year. Pro- 
fessor Jorgensen, the Lecturer on Agriculture at the Qollege, is 
very cautious about publishing results, and does not consider it 
safe even to draw conclusions from experiments until they have 
been repeated ten years consecutively. Xo doubt he is wise, and 
when his record is published his caution will make it the more 
valuable. 
What may be termed " primary " agricultural education is 
fostered by the Royal Danish Agricultural Society — a private 
institution with a State subvention. Its educational efforts have 
