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SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURE. 
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that all seed sold requires by law to be accompanied by a copy of its 
analysis, and further that all analyses made are published with vendors’ 
names, readily account for the wonderful improvement in the quality 
of Danish commercial seeds in recent years. — 8 Ani 
At the college the third official “ paper” dealing with plant patho- 
logical work in Denmark was read by Professor Ravn, whose 
special sphere this subject is. The special point brought .out 
in the ensuing discussion ~was that, with the exception of 
Barberry, the eradication of noxious weeds and suppression of 
disease in plants is not enforced by law. The initiative of 
the individual farmers and their societies ‘accomplishes all 
-that is necessary, and against any negligent or “dirty” farmer is 
brought to bear a very strong public opinion, fostered by the educational 
influences of experiment stations, winter farm schools, and private ex- 
perimenting. Professor Ravn also mentioned the State Seed Control 
and Co-operative Wholesale Society among the chief influences working 
for the improvement not only of commercial seeds but of the quality 
of varieties of farm crops and their resistance to disease. 
On Tuesday, 22nd, was commenced a three weeks’ tour of the islands 
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and strip of mainland (Jutland) which constitute.this country. 
At Hasley, a typical farming centre, there were to be seen first the 
Trifolium Company’s principal dairy, a co-operative bacon factory 
and boiling-down works, a co-operative ege export depot, and the Haslev 
Agricultural School. In the dairy (handling gallons of milk a day), 
and the bacon factory, with a capacity for dealing with 100 pigs a day, 
there were only minor points of interest to those acquainted with these 
industries in our coastal districts at home. Both factories, of course, 
are well equipped and very efficiently conducted, and are types with 
which one grows very familiar in travelling about Denmark. Tt was 
noticed that in the matter of cleanliness the climate here evidently 
allows greater latitude than do our own high summer temperatures. 
In the cheese room an 80 per cent. skim milk cheese with caraway 
seed flayouring was being turned out with five vats as fast as the milk 
came from the separators. The cellars had storage capacity for 
60,000 cheeses, but very few of the rooms’were filled—another effect of 
war-time prices. In an adjoining room the whey was being evaporated 
and converted ‘into a sweetish product known as Norwegian cheese, 
which here was apparently sold without ripening. 
The egg export depot was a miniature of the Copenhagen establish- 
ment, with the exception of grading by weight; only very abnormal 
sizes were culled for local sale along with the “cracked.” Finally the 
Hasley Agricultural School, though of great interest at the time, may 
be despatched in a few words. It-is one of seventeen such schools 
scattered throughout the country, and better examples of this excellent 
type of institution were to be visited later. Suffice it to say here that 
the school is owned’ and controiled by a philanthropically disposed com- 
pany of local people (and it must be borne in mind that Haslev is a 
town of some 2,000 or 3,000 inhabitants only). ~~ Teh gets 
- The party ‘was conducted over the buildings (which were under- 
going repairs) and the 100-acre farm by the principal, evidently a keen 
and devoted man; who gave a short address. This was the first’ such 
occasion, by the way, in which the interpreter’s services were required. 
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