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enabled to procure a situation as bailiff upon a large farm at a 
good salary. Professor Segelcke said that this was not an 
unusual case of perseverance and industry. 
Practical Instruction in Dairying. 
Many large dairy farms in Denmark are practical schools for 
dairying for farmers' daughters. The young women remain on 
the farm for one or two years, and do all but the heaviest work 
of the dairy in exchange for instruction, board, and lodging,, 
and sometimes a small payment of about 2/. or 3/. per annum. 
There are not generally more than three or four pupils in the dairy 
at one time ; but on the farm of Mrs. Hannah Nielson, consist- 
ing of about 170 acres, there are often about a dozen farmers' 
daughters employed as working pupils, who are boarded and 
lodged in the farm-house for various periods extending from six 
weeks to two years. The usual length of stay is six months, 
and they are mostly peasant-farmers' daughters. Each pupil 
has five cows allotted to her in rotation, and the result of the 
several milkings are carefully noted, the produce of each cow 
being entered separately morning and evening, together with 
the name of the milker. The knowledge that the results of 
their milking are booked produces a spirit of emulation amongst 
the girls, which gives far better results than any system of 
supervision. 
On some of the large farms, where the head of a dairy is a 
man, the pupils are also men. 
To sum up, the results of agricultural education in Den- 
mark have been something extraordinary, 'fwenty years ago 
the butter sold in the market by the yeomen farmers was pro- 
nounced execrably bad ; at present, Danish butter in its season 
has practically no rival on the London market. 
Belgium and the Netherlands. 
In these countries agricultural education, although it has 
received some attention, has by no means attained the impor- 
tance which has been given to it by tlie other Continental States 
already mentioned. At Gembloux, in the former country, and 
at Wageningen, in Holland, State agricultural institutes have 
been established, but these are the only high schools of any 
considerable importance in the two countries. 
Gembloux is situated in the central and loamy district of 
Belgium, where sugar-beet farming is most productive. The 
farm belonging to the Institute, which extends over 165 acres, 
is therefore cropped on the system most applicable to that 
