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Agriculture of Dcnnuirh. 
the care taken in c'f)llecting^, preparin<r, and preservings manure, 
liquid as well as solid, Las very much increased of late on the 
laro-er ])roperties. On nearly all those of the yeomen the old 
indifference on this head remains unchanged, and the manure, 
with its rich fluids, is wasted to a very great extent ; the capital 
thus annually lost to the husbandman is immense. In those dis- 
tricts where the soil is rich the least care is taken of manure ; 
where it is barren, as in some parts of Jutland, attention has 
more readily l)cen drawn to its great importance, and, as it is 
scarce there, it is often mixed with turf and bog-soil. 
Marling. — This operation has been used for a long period in 
some districts of Holstein (the north-east), but it is only within 
the last thirty or forty years that it has been introduced into the 
kingdom. The large landed proprietors have adopted the 
practice, and invariably admit its usefulness, but the yeomen- 
farmers are still Ijehindhand in its application. On the island 
of Bornholm marling may almost be said to be unknown ; in 
Jutland it is not very common, principally because the marl has 
to be brought from great distances. 
In the less fertile districts of the country succulent plants, such 
as buck-wheat, are not uncommonly cultivated for the purpose 
of being ploughed into the soil, by which means the fertility of 
the land is much improved ; on the coasts sea-weed is much used 
as manure, but, as a general rule, it is not applied when fresh 
gathered, which is, no doubt, a mistake. Another kind of 
manui"e (that made of fish), elsewhere acknowledged as very 
powerful, might be employed to a great extent in Denmark, and 
would no doubt prove most useful ; it is, however, almost entirely 
neglected, though many of the inhabitants of the Danish coasts 
are occupied in fishing. The heads and entrails of the fish to 
be dried, and those found dead in the nets, are generally used to 
feed pigs, or thrown into the sea : a very rich supply of manure 
is thus neglected. In Norway lactories have been established 
to utilise this raw material, and have proved most beneficial ; it 
appears singular that neither the government nor any private 
persons in Denmark have paid attention to this subject. 
Many of the artificial manures which have been used with so 
much advantage in England and elsewhere (as gypsum, bones 
and horns, oil-cakes, A:c.) have been tried, but have not 
found favf)ur in Denmark. A manufactory of patent manure 
(animal izcd carbon) has for some years been established near 
Copenhagen, by an linglish firm, Messrs. J. Owen and Son. 
From 1837 to 1846 this manure was much used, especially on 
the island of Bornholm, but, the results of its adoption not 
having proved satisfactory, it has since been discontinued and 
replaced by another artificial manure (superphosphate of lime) 
