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Agriculture of Denmark. 
Chevalier barley was much in vogue, ten or twenty years ago, in 
some of the provinces of Denmark, but has never become general 
on account of the length of time it requires to ripen. 
The Danish barley is of superior quality, and usually sur- 
passes that of the Baltic provinces in weight ; it is therefore 
much esteemed in foreign markets. As a general rule, it has a 
weight of 110 to 114 lbs. Dutch per barrel (or 53 to 54 lbs. 
English per bushel), but sometimes exceeds it. In the north- 
west part of Sealand, in the neighbourhood of Callunborg, the 
finest barley of the country is to be found, and here it sometimes 
weighs from 118 to 120 lbs. or. even 122 lbs. Dutch per barrel 
(56^, 57J, to 58^ lbs. English per bushel). I am, however, 
informed that complaints have of late been made, especially in 
England, against the Danish barley, on the ground that the 
beard is broken off too close, for the sake of gaining weight and 
compactness in the sample, by which operation the kernel loses 
its germinating power, whereby its value, as malting barley, is 
diminished ; this, together with the heavy malt-tax in England, 
is the reason why Danish barley of late years has, comparatively 
speaking, been quoted at a higher price in Hamburg than in 
London. Since thrashing machines have become more general 
in Denmark, the farmers often use them for their barley, by 
which great labour is saved ; but no doubt the barley suffers 
more by such operation than when thrashed with the flail or 
trodden out by horses. Corn-dealers complain that, since the 
thrashing machine has been used for such purpose, the kernels 
are often cut in two, and the principal brewers of this country 
object to purchase barley thus thrashed. 
The export of barley from Denmark is now, and alwayS has 
been, larger than that of any other kind of grain. During the 
last twenty years it has considerably increased, though not in 
the same proportion as other grain. 
From 1830 to 1840 the annual export of barley was about 
380,950 quarters ; from 1855 to 1859 it, however, averaged 
660,000 quarters. 
Oats. — This is the largest crop grown in the Danish monarchy. 
In Jutland it is especially cultivated, and forms about forty-two 
per cent, of the entire harvest of that province ; it is also largely 
raised on the Danish islands, but not to the same extent as 
in Jutland or the duchies, where, especially in the marshes, it 
grows most luxuriantly. The yeomen farmers prefer a narrow- 
kernelled and pointed species of oats, called the old Danish, but 
on the larger properties the common white variety, introduced 
from England and Mecklenburg, is chiefly cultivated. The 
average weight of the Danish oats is 78 to 82 lbs. Dutch per 
barrel (or 37^ to 39-| lbs. English per bushel). 
