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introduced with a view of breeding sheep in which both meat 
and wool of superior quality may be combined. 
On the island of Bornholm the sheep are very inferior : of 
late an attempt has been made to improve the breed by the 
introduction of English rams. 
The yeoman farmer employs nearly all the wool of his sheep 
in home manufacture ; the large sheep proprietors sell theirs to 
the weavers, of whom there are forty-two in Denmark, or to the 
cloth manufacturers, of whom there are twenty-six ; but the cloth 
produced is generally coarse ; the finer sorts used in the country 
are imported principally from Elngland, Germany, and Belgium. 
Of the wool annually produced in Denmark the largest quan- 
tity is used in the country. Of manufactured woollen goods the 
export is but small : in 1859, for instance, only to the value of 
18,000/., while during the same year 670,779/. worth of such 
goods was imported, showing how little the country is able to 
supply its own requirements in this article. 
The export of sheep and wool, and the import of wool, may 
be thus stated : — 
Year. 
Export of 
Sheep. 
Whereof to 
England. 
Export of Wool. 
Whereof to 
England. 
Import of Wool. 
Number. 
Number. 
Pounds. 
Pounds. 
Pounds. 
1854 
32,305 
12,887 
3,675,266 
1,026,512 
1,691,302 
1855 
25,708 
9,798 
3,362,165 
1,015,669 
1,689,224 
1856 
28,962 
10,175 
3,420,823 
1,286,858 
1,481,827 
1857 
35,675 
17,756 
3,155,549 
1,258,070 
1,385,424 
1858 
28,714 
10,033 
3,-901,415 
2,147,506 
1,128,989 
1859 
40,445 
18,371 
3,621 ,387 
2,114,461 
1,045,624 
England imports the largest number of sheep ; next come Ham- 
burg and Liibeck. 
Nearly all the wool imported comes from Iceland : of late 
years the importation has, however, fallen off, in consequence of 
disease among the sheep there. The wool sent to England is 
mostly of the coarser kind ; the rest goes to Sweden, Hamburg, 
Liibeck, Norway, and Holland. 
Swine. — But little attention is paid here to the rearing of 
swine, at least on the smaller farms. Of late years more pains 
have been bestowed on the building of sties, as well as the 
improvement of the race, by a cross with hogs imported from 
England, or the better class reared in the country. The English 
swine are highly esteemed here, on account of their prolific 
nature, their great weight in flesh, and because they thrive on 
little food, and supply pork of fine flavour. It is chiefly on the 
Danish islands that the Yorkshire race has had a considerable 
influence on the breed. The Jutland pig is larger, but not as 
