SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURE. 
A “smallholder” is a settler owning something less than 10 acres 
of ground, whose steading consists of a single gable building including 
residence, barn, and byre. 
~ Besides the ordinary subjects connected with agricultural, dairying, 
ardening, and domestic economy, a wider field of study is covered. 
tudents generally elect to take some extra subject such as general or 
Danish history, literature, social economies, &c. 
In addition to the ordinary three or six months’ courses provision 
vs made for very short terms, as short as eleven days in some cases, for 
adults. These courses must resemble the summer schools of our own 
Workers’ Education Association; people come to them from the re- 
motest “ back-blocks” and islands, in order to get in touch with modern 
thought and general progress, in order, as Mr. Lange puts it, “ to move 
forward together.” 
Mr. Lange explained that the lead in enlightenment and reform 
had always come in Denmark from the agricultural community, and not 
from the cities as in our own country. This no doubt accounts for 
many things in this country which seem remarkable to outsiders. On 
the question of land settlement Mr. Lange said he could not con- 
scientiously advise young people to acquire land at present, even with 
the very liberal assistance of the Danish Closer Settlement Act. In- 
cidentally he referred with evident admiration to the rational system 
of land valuation and taxation in Australia. : 
It is unfortunate that time did not permit of more than a hurried 
look over the establishment. There were seen a 10-acre experimental 
orchard, a few fields of the farm of some 80 acres, the extensive gardens 
in which are grown small fruits, vegetables, and flowers on a commercial 
scale, a cookery class at work under the supervision of Mrs. Lange, who 
is as keen an enthusiast as her husband. The visit by the way was re- 
sponsible for a series of disasters to various dishes which happened to 
be at their critical stages. Before leaving the Small Holder School it 
is to be remarked that this was the most pleasantly situated of all the 
very cleverly laid out farm schools which had been or were later visited. 
The first. day on the mainland was spent in driving about the dis- 
trict of Fredericia, near the present Jutland-Schleswig border. Short 
halts were made at several farms and dairies. Among the former 
Dougaards Brothers’ 150-acre property seemed particularly well worked, 
and carried fine crops of wheat, oats, rye, barley, mangels, and peas, all 
‘promising exceptionally heavy yields. . A mixed horticultural. and 
dairy farm belonging to a Mr. Kromann was cited as an approximation 
to the ideal in the way of smaller holdings; though with 10 acres of 
faultlessly worked orchard and garden and 15 acres under general 
crops, and supporting eight head of dairy stock and as many pigs, Mr. 
Kromann seems to be making very handsome money. Here every pro- 
duct of Danish soil seemed to be raised, including hazel nuts, honey, 
flower seeds, all manner of small and large fruits, besides those of the 
ordinary farm and dairy. The land moreover was a poor, whitish sand 
hill twenty years ago. Good cows and pigs were seen on all these 
smaller places; in the case of the former odd ‘ones had reached the 
1,000 gallon mark. 
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