Agriculture of Dcnmarh. 
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2, vyc ; 3, rye ; 4 to 7, grass ; and, in fertile soil, "barley and 
wheat. 
The advantage of the English method of avoiding two crops 
of cereals in succession has of late become clearer to the Danish 
agriculturist, and in some places it has been adopted. On one 
estate in Funen, in the neighbourhood oi Svcndliorg, the Scotch 
mode of husbandry has been introduced ; but it is doubted 
whether the climate and other local circumstances will admit of 
its more general application. The land must certainly receive 
higher culture before the English mode of agriculture can become 
general in this country. This is not said with a view to censure 
the Danish farming, which must be admitted to be good, alt 
circumstances considered, but it is evident that, Avhcre the popula- 
tion on an English square mile is under 100, the cultivation of 
land cannot be as extensive as in Norfolk, Suffolk, or Lincolnshire, 
with a population of above 200 to the square mile, or as that of 
Belgium, with above 340 inhabitants to the square mile. For 
the same reason the land in Jutland (with a population of 59 to 
the square mile) is less cultivated than that on the Danish 
islands, with 150 inhabitants per square mile. With the excep- 
tion of England, Holland, and Belgium, Denmark is scarcely 
second in husbandry to any country in Europe. 
Agricultural Implements. 
The application of steam-power to agriculture is almost un- 
known here, but the Danish farmer follows, with great interest, 
the improvements made in farming implements abroad, and, 
when they are practically useful, all local impediments taken 
into consideration, adopts them. But he looks with suspicion 
upon all such improvements as appear complicated. As Den- 
mark is not a manufacturing country, its youth is not educated 
to look upon machinery with confidence, as in England ; nor has 
it the same chance of obtaining practical knowledge. The 
Danish farmer has difficulty in properly estimating the value of 
complicated agricultural machinery, the labourers in using it, 
and the country mechanics in repairing it. In the latter fact 
may perhaps be found the great drawback to the use of such 
machinery, for the only mechanics that can repair it generally 
live at such distances that, if broken, it could not be made use of 
again until next season. Less complicated machinery, as the 
patent chaff-cutter and winnowing-machines, may frequently be 
met with even on the yeomen-properties. The thrashing- 
machine, particularly the smaller English one, has of late years 
been introduced on the larger estates ; reaping-machines, which 
formerly were only mentioned here with a smile, are now being 
introduced; but local difficulties will, no doubt, limit their 
