SCIENCE AND: INDUSTRY. 
eat off a crop of mixed grains or grasses, while a fresh and vigorous 
growth shows up where they had been a few days previously. 
The introduction of root crops has done away with the old bare 
fallow at one time practised, and a general seven or eight course rota- 
tion is used. With minor variations in different localities the follow- 
ing may be taken as typical:—(1)- Wheat or rye (winter sown), (2) 
roots (mangels, turnips, potatoes, or sugar beet), (3) barley, (4) roots 
or mixed grains (oats, barley, peas, and vetches) for feeding off, (5) 
oats, (6) barley or oats sown with grass and clover mixture, (7) clover 
and grass for hay and grazing, (8) ditto fallowed during the summer 
for winter grain again. Of the series of possible diseases this system 
is arranged to combat, some are quite unknown at home. : 
Besides the main eight fields-on every farm there are generally a 
few odd paddocks for such purposes as special trials, or seed growing, 
and a patch of lucerne is by no means uncommon. The latter will 
stand as a rule for eight years, and yield up to 4 tons of hay per annum 
in 2 or 3 cuts. 
Only a passing reference can be made to the general air of prosperity 
about the country districts: the substantial and handy buildings, the 
thorough cleanliness of the steadings and farms generally (a contrast 
to Picardy), and the very general use of electricity. In localities 
remote from the larger distributing centres, frequently an extra large 
windmill on the outskirts of a village was found to be running a 
dynamo. There was always an oil or suction gas engine in reserve, and 
of course storage batteries, and it was gathered that these plants usually 
serve a district of several miles’ radius.. Where a few steadings are 
situated close together there, is generally to be seen a transformer on 
poles at the cross roads and power lines running in all directions. 
Before leaving Noestved it may be mentioned that opposite the hotel 
where the party stayed there was a row of fine buildings housing re- 
spectively a museum, a technical college, and a “ realskole,’ whatever 
that sort may be. Lower down the street stood the “ Kommune” 
School; not far from the town there was a boys’ college, described as 
the “Eton of Denmark,” and on departure the train passed another 
agricultural school similar to Kaslev. There may have been others, but 
these forced themselves on one’s notice; and Noestyved may be ranked, in 
regard to population and importance, with Goulburn in New South 
Wales. I ge aE aa: > pi ciahdad bs Ias 
-At Maribo was seen one of the eight sugar beet factories of Den- 
mark. This place has a capacity for dealing with about 1,500 tons of 
beets daily during the season, which opens in a couple of months’ time. 
It was explained that in pre-war days the farmers grew the beets under 
a ten years’ contract, and delivered for about 22s. 6d. a ton. In addition 
the, solid refuse material is returned to the growers pro rata, for use 
as cattle feed (its value is 10s. a ton), and 50 per cent. of total profits 
were distributed among the growers apart from what they might receive 
as shareholders. | Last -year, however, the general prosperity of the 
farmers enabled them to demand 55s.,a ton on a one-year contract 
only, and without the more or less problematical share in the profits. 
The processes of cleaning, cutting, boiling, pressing, clarifying, and 
evaporating the syrup to a large ‘grained brown sugar were explained, 
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