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Agriculture of Denmark. 
easily fed as the smaller one of the islands ; it has not been much 
crossed by foreign breeds, and in some parts of this province, 
for instance, the south-west, the aboriginal race is still to be found. 
Danish history states that one hundred and fifty years ago 
wild boars were so plentiful that Christian V. in 101)2, in one 
boar-hunt on the island of Sealand, killed thirty-three of them, 
and in Jutland their final extermination took place within the 
memory of man ; they are still to be met with in the forests of 
Lauenburg. 
According to the statistical reports, there were in Denmark 
Proper in 1«38, 320,000 pigs, in Sleswig, in 1845, 44,000, and 
in Holstein 68,000 ; but since then the number must have greatly 
increased. As the fatting of swine is most profitable where there 
are dairies, it is natural that the duchies should, comparatively 
speaking, have the largest number of them, and, for a similar 
reason, they are more numerous on the islands than in Jutland. 
The export of swine from the Danish monarchy has considerably 
increased during the last fifteen years, and may be said, on an 
average, to be. four times as great as during the years 1836-1846. 
The export of pork has also increased, but not in the same pro- 
portion. 
The swine are principally exported from Holstein, and almost 
exclusively to 1-Jamburg and Liibeck; about 1000 are annually 
sent to Norway. 
The pork (whereof eight-ninths is salted and one-ninth 
smoked) was formerly sent chiefly to Hamburg, but now England 
and Norway share in the exports, in almost equal proportion 
with that city, so that these three places receive from three-fifths 
to four-fifths of the entire quantity exported ; of the remainder 
Sweden, the West and East Indies, and Greenland, receive a 
considerable share. 
Export of Swine and Pork. 
Year. 
Swine. 
POEK. 
In Number. 
AVhereof to 
England. 
Pounds. 
Whereof to 
England. 
1854 
1855 
1856 
1857 
1858 
1859 
43,957 
43,418 
50,180 
43,706 
40,802 
55,769 
78 
48 
3 
7 
21 
186 
4,051,276 
4,889,079 
3,926,407 
4,040,631 
3,340,071 
5,784,845 
657,571 
1,540,499 
1,076,328 
760,566 
827,083 
1,787,973 
Cultivation and Product of different Crops. 
Corn is the chief article of export from Denmark ; it is conse- 
quently the produce on which the interest of the agriculturist is 
