SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURE. 
though the machinery was none of it in use of course. Another useful 
product the farmer receives is the lime sediment after clarifying. This 
is a valuable manure, and is sold to.growers at 1s. 2d. a ton in a half- 
dried state. The company use the rich dirt obtained from washing 
the beets for reclaiming swamp or fertilizing sandy soil, and finally 
the farmer uses the beet tops either as green feed or ensiled, layer for 
layer, with the beet refuse returned from the factory. The final result 
of this dovetailed system is a very prosperous looking district. Much 
of the labour for the rush season is provided by bringing across numbers 
of Polish girls who live in barrack-like buildings on the larger estates. 
Some of these girls were seen at work on ordinary farm labour on the 
Sugar Company’s model farm. he firm has 45 miles of light railway 
track, and the party were taken in a couple of trucks for a run through 
the district which grows the beets, detraining at Mr. Suhr’s magnificent 
property “ Scholt.” Mr. Suhr is spending, at a very rough guess, about 
a quarter of a million sterling in establishing a 1,200-acre farm, of 
which some 300 or 400 acres are timber land. 
In reply to the natural and apparently usual question: Is it going 
to pay? Mr. Suhr explained that he had made plenty of money in the 
city, and farming was his hobby. This apparently indicates the general 
point of view of many of the larger Danish land-holders. The steading 
buildings of this farm are of course palatial, but are designed in such 
good architectural style as not to seem out of proportion. The main 
iall of the barn measures, roughly, 500 feet by 100 feet. Into this 
space loaded waggons can be driven through several doors, and there is 
an electric hoist arrangement for taking the load off bodily and de- 
positing it in any part of the barn. The cow byres opening from one 
side of the barn accommodate about 240 milkers, and among other 
adjuncts there is a small laboratory in one corner for the use of the 
control officer on his (or her) periodical visits to test each cow’s milk 
and make up the records. On either side of the byres lie the stables 
and piggery respectively, each of similar dimensions; and over each of 
these three wings of the steading there is a loft used as fodder store 
for the animals beneath, and separated from them by a fireproof layer 
of reinforced concrete. The power-house is a separate building roofed 
with copper; so also are the men’s and girls’ quarters, manager’s resi- 
dence, &e. In a central position is a small artificial lake through 
which all machines and horses will be driven on returning from work 
and before entering the sheds and stables. So much for an ideal farm! 
