SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
theatre. The buildings too have quite a nice appearance exteriorly, and 
are set off by a broad belt of well-kept lawn and flower garden, and the 
senior officers connected with this establishment bore quite a profes- 
sional air. 
‘An interesting side line at Tranekar and one frequently combined 
with farming throughout Denmark is the production of peat. It is 
sometimes simply cut out in blocks and stacked to dry. Here an outfit 
was seen for digging, grinding, and puddling the material. It is then 
poured out on green turf in a 4-inch layer and stamped, so that it 
dries into brickettes. The percentage of combustible material varies 
from 50 to 70 per cent. or even higher, and the stuff is worth just now 
up to 30s. a ton. In some places boiler plants were seen burning 
nothing else but high-grade peat.- It is, however, generally used to eke 
out the meagre and very expensive coal supply. 
On Fyen, a larger island, a couple of days full of interest were spent 
in visiting several farms and institutions in the ‘neighbourhood of 
Odense—the third city of Denmark. Odense, by the way, might well 
serve as a model for the municipal authorities of our growing country 
towns at home. It is, almost, the city of the idealist in being. The 
municipal band performs daily in one or other of the city parks or 
gardens, and if there is poverty there are at least to be seen no outward 
signs of anything but contentment and comfort. 
Another prosperous and go-ahead firm of seedsmen, L. Daehnfeldt 
Limited, provided a fleet of cars, and sent things along with a swing for the 
best part of a day. First we inspected the company’s show-rooms and flower 
seed store, then another huge establishment for handling farm seeds. 
This included one new building in reinforced concrete throughout in 
which the machinery is not yet completely installed. This place the 
firm claims will be the most modern and efficient of its kind in the world. 
The amount of building which is going on, by the way, all over Den- 
mark, in spite of high- prices, is remarkable. 
There was a drive of several miles through farming country, and 
the crops seen were almost all for seed purposes. These were on the 
firm’s own as well as contract farmers’ land. In the testing and 
‘breeding fields a party of 100 Danes, both men and women, were met. 
These were members of an agricultural association, and probably con- 
‘tract growers come from an outlying district to study latest develop- 
‘ments. They too were travelling in the firm’s motor lorries, a fleet 
of which is kept for this purpose almost entirely. Besides pedigree 
strains of all sorts of farm crops there were seen growing a patch of 
pansies which a sheet might coyer, but worth some thousands; and hot- 
liouses of cucumbers and tomatoes, the seed’ of which is sold individually 
‘at 3d. or 4d. each. 
The Dalum Agricultural School is situated in this neighbourhood. 
A still more elaborately equipped example of this type of institution 
was seen later at Ladelund College on the Jutland mainland, but: a 
general rough outline may here be given of the purposes these schools 
serve and the lines on which they are run. As was previously men- 
tioned they number about seventeen in all Denmark. They seem to 
have been founded like many other types of schools, as private ven- 
tures, and later on enlarged by the aid of capital subscribed by appre- 
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