SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURE. 
ciative ex-students (who do not draw the interest on their investment), 
and by loans from credit societies. In the case of Ladelund, for in- 
stance, it was gathered that the subscribed capital was about £3,000, and 
loans raised total about £12,000, while the total value of the property 
was estimated at £25,000. The farm, which is generally from 100 to 
200 acres in extent, is the financial mainstay, and is therefore always 
thoroughly and very efficiently worked. The only State assistance received 
is a small subsidy, which varies from about £150 to £300 per annum, 
according to the size of the school. The State also pays 50 per cent. 
of students fees in cases of special necessity. These fees on the average 
work out at about £1 a week, including board, accommodation, and in- 
struction. The school is governed by a small committee consisting 
of the director and senior instructors, residents, generally, of the 
surrounding districts. The governing idea of the teaching is that 
students must learn practical work on practical farms, and come to 
the college therefore only to get theoretical instruction. The agricul- 
tural and dairy courses therefore cover a single winter term generally 
of six months, in some cases nine. 
In the early summer domestic economy courses for young ladies are 
generally put on, and during the three harvest months (July-September) 
the school is closed. At Dalumm the teaching staff number ten. Besides 
lecture rooms and library there is a laboratory used chiefly for dairy 
and bacteriological work, and an excellent museum of agricultural and 
dairy machinery, implements, and utensils. This museum is a feature 
of Danish farm schools, and generally occupies a large shed or hall with 
an upper gallery running right round the interior. The students come 
chiefly from the farming districts, and number in summer about forty 
to sixty for domestic economy, and up to 250 for the main winter term. 
They are all resident, and live one, two, or three in a room. The living 
is by no means luxurious, but the general environment of these schools 
seems very fine indeed, and a very good esprit de corps is evidently 
developed. ‘There is a dairy of course run in connexion with the farm, 
and supplied also by neighbouring farmers. At Dalum the dairy has 
a capacity for handling 1,200 gallons a day, and supplies pure milk 
to hospitals in Odense. The dairy herd too, of pure Reds, is specially 
good. Here at last was found a byreful of stock to please the critical 
dairyman. There were thirty-four milkers, all of a good dairy type. 
The average yield was given as about 1,000 gallons, and the average 
test 3.65 per cent. This it must be said stood out as far and away the 
best herd seen during the tour. On several other farms, however, 1n- 
dividual cows showed the quality one would expect. On the other’ 
hand, of course, the stock were seen at a disadvantage. The last few 
years, and especially last winter, have been particularly hard on the 
cows, owing to the shortage of imported foodstuffs; American maize 
seems to be the great stand-by normally. 
From the Dalum herd bull calves have been sold up to £400. 
of the type seen here are apparently not to be bought just now, but the 
price of a good average milker was given as about £40. 
One of the farms visited in the Odense district was of special interest. 
This was Mr. A. Andersen’s property at Langeskor, where is situated 
a pig-breeding centre. The function of this institution is to test pigs, 
both boars and sows (by the fattening propensities of their progeny) 
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