the Farming of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. 381 
moniacal manures are almost unknown, and top-dressings rarely, 
if ever, heard of. Artificial feeding-stuffs consist principally of 
rape-cake and palmnut-cake, which are preferred to linseed-cake 
for milch-cows ; but in the meat-making districts a certain 
amount of linseed-cake is used by the best farmers in small 
quantities. The use of linseed-cake in large doses for finishings 
off fat bullocks is very little known ; and the practice of makings 
the stall-feeding of cattle the finishing process is almost confined 
to the dairy districts. 
Another great divergence from English practice is to be 
found in the system of consuming so large a proportion of the 
home-grown crops on the farm. 
In Great Britain farmers try to produce corn of fine quality 
that will pay to sell, and to sell it, purchasing back feeding- 
stuffs which cost less money for a given amount of feeding and 
manurial matter. In Denmark, as in Sweden and Norway, 
most of the corn grown is consumed on the farm, the only 
kinds sold being the best of the wheat, and sometimes a pro- 
portion of the barley, the bulk of the produce being used for 
feeding dairy-cows, pigs, and horses, especially during the 
winter.* Thus Mr. Vallentiner sells, off 780 imperial acres of 
good land, dairy-produce to the amount of 2200/., or nearly 2>l. 
per acre ; while his sales of corn amount to only 1800/., or less 
than 50*. per acre. Mr. Vallentiner is one of the best farmers in 
Sealand, and his sales of corn are far larger in proportion than 
most farmers make, partly because he gets very good crops, and 
partly because he buys 15 tons of rape-cake annually, besides^ 
a large quantity of bran. 
The differences of laws, customs, and climate which have 
been described in this Report make a comparison of the results 
of Danish and English farming a somewhat difficult and un- 
certain calculation. However, the figures given in the pre- 
ceding pages, as well as those previously published by Professor 
Wilson, lead one to doubt whether M. Tisserand's prediction 
that Danish farmers will "extract a higher profit from their 
land" than English occupiers is likely to be verified, unless 
they alter their system of farming in some essential particulars. 
In conclusion, I wish to express my thanks to all whose names 
occur in the foregoing pages, and to many other Danish gentle- 
men, for their uniform kindness and hospitality. 
* The English system is assumed in the recently enacted " Agriculturaf 
Holdings (England) Act, 1875," seciion 5 of which provides for compensation to 
the or'cupier for the unexhaustfd manure produ'-ed by thi' ' cnnsurapiion ou the 
holding by cattle, sheep, or pigs, of cake or other feedmg-stuff not pni'iwed on the 
holding.'' This provision will meet the wants of the great majority of English 
farmers; but in Denrnurk it would be innperative, as very little feeding-stuff is 
purchased ; but from one-half to two-thii ds, or more, of the corn grown is consumed 
on the holding. 
