SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
for admission to the herd book. The breeds dealt with are Danish 
White and Large York White, practically the only pigs seen in the 
country. On application from a farmer a local committee visits his 
farm and inspects the animals proposed for the herd book, to judge as 
to type and general appearance. If these are found satisfactory four 
of the progeny of the animal in question are sent up to Mr. Andersen’s 
piggery after weaning. Here they are fed in one sty until ready for 
the butcher as baconers, 7.e., about 200 Ibs. live weight. This takes 
from four to six months. All food given them is weighed, and all pigs 
under observation are of course treated similarly. Every fortnight 
each “family” is weighed, and an exact record of the use they make 
of their food is thus obtained. What the exact standard of rate of 
fattening is ‘could not be ascertained, but Mr. Andersen was understood 
to say that a good youngster should grow to 200 lbs. live weight in 
from six to seven months after consuming from 700 to 800 “units” 
of food. For this purpose 1 lb. of grain is reckoned a “unit,” and as 
equivalent to 6 lbs. skim milk, and 10 lbs. mangels or other green stuff. 
Tf a family pan out satisfactosily at the bacon factory, «.e., after 
slaughtering, a second—confirmatory—test is ordered from another litter 
by the same parents, and after passing the double test the aspiring 
parent or parents are eligible for entry in the herd books. 
By way of recompense for the work and trouble involved Mr. 
Andersen gets the weaners at half the market value, and he takes the 
full proceeds from the bacon factory. This 50 per cent. of the value 
of the young pigs is paid by the State, and amounts to about 25s. per 
pig on the average. The Government thus secures a highly technical 
service efficiently rendered at what seems a very low cost, a feature very 
typical of Danish agricultural administration. 
The piggery in which the “control” litters are fattened seemed a 
well adapted affair. There were fifty sties, each about 8 feet by 8 feet, 
completely closed in. under one roof. A gangway running lengthwise 
between the sties and a crossway in the centre leading to the food 
rooms on one side and. weighbridge on the other. -The.walls of the 
sties stood about 2 ft. 9 in., and consisted of reinforced concrete 2 inches 
thick and strengthened at the corners. At the back of each sty a space 
for dropping is partly partitioned off, and about half the floor of the 
main apartment is raised about 6 inches and covered with straw bedding. 
All the larger piggeries seen were something after the same style 
of construction. War conditions of course have reduced stock tre- 
mendously; the larger estates visited had accommodation for from 3800 
to 700 head, but at present nobody is carrying more than 20 or 30 per 
cent. of normal stocking in pigs. 
On the outskirts of Odense there is a unique institution called the 
“Small Holders’ School,” governed by a Mr. Jacob Lange. Mr. Lange, 
besides being a ‘horticulturist of some note, is also an ardent educa- 
tionalist and social reformer. In a short but very interesting address 
he explained that the school is organized and conducted almost similarly 
to the ordinary agricultural schools, except that it is owned by the Small 
Holders’ Association of the whole country, and draws its students princi- 
pally from this class of people. — © : 
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