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Title: The journal of the Ministry of Agriculture.
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Great Britain. Ministry of Agriculture
Subjects: Agriculture Agriculture
Publisher: London : Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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usually hired from a bigger farmer : one, ownedco-operatively, died, and as he was not insured, funds werelacking wherewith to purchase another. The pigs are of white Danish breed, very similar to ourLarge Wliite Yorkshires, to which they are closely related.Boars belonging to neighbouring farmers are used; in onecase the boar at the small holders school. Implements.—The holdings are invariably well equippedwith implements of the small-holder type. A Hght plough ofthe Oliver pattern and a Danish horse hoe, convertible intoa root drill, are perhaps the most noteworthy. The latter isadapted for cleaning roots on the fiat—two rows being takenat one time : a pair of discs fixed about 3 in. apart straddleseach row of plants, and fiat cutting-shares operate between and atthe outside. The discs protect the plants from being coveredup by the working of the shares. One horse is required topull this excellent tool. Many of the holdings have their own 1920.) Land Settlement in Denmark. 1069
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Horse Hoes suitable for Cleaning Roots on the Flat.(Maker: Christopherson, Holeby.) threshing machine. It is a simple affair, driven by horses, andconsists mainly of a drum to beat out the grain; winnowingis done afterwards. It is capable of threshing 600—700 lb.per hour, and cost (pre-war) 300 kroner (£16 17s. 6d.). Somepossess chaff-cutters, root-pulpers, corn-drills and mowingmachines. Co-operation in regard to implements is rare, butone or two holders may share a threshing machine. The small holder schools are endeavouring to encourage,in combination with milk production, the growing of flowersand roots for seed, and the cultivation of fruit, but such examplesas we were able to see were not very promising. 1070 Land Settlement in Denmark. (FEB., Larger Holdings.—visit was also paid to four farms in thesame locality. In size these run from 75 to 85 acres (average 80acres) and, with one exception, are owned by the occupiers.The exception is the case of a son renting from his fa

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