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Identifier: ruraldenmarkitsl00hagg (find matches)
Title: Rural Denmark and its lessons
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925
Subjects: Agriculture Agriculture, Cooperative
Publisher: London New York Bombay Calcutta : Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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gbulls which had just passed the tuberculin test.These animals, the progeny of i( Dan, sell at pricesranging from 800 to 1500 kroner (^44, 6s. 8d. to,£86), while the heifers in calf can be bought forabout 350 kroner (say ^19, 10s.). The practice insuch herds is to keep only the best of the male calvesthat are bred from heavy milking dams. The rest aresold within fourteen days of birth, which I supposeaccounts for the quantity of veal which is served atDanish tables, especially in the hotels. It is strange to me that these red Danish cattle,which possess such splendid milking qualities andproduce such a high percentage of butter-fat, are notintroduced into England, where I never saw or heardof any of them. Of course the answer is that theycannot compare with shorthorns as beef animals.Professor Maar, of the Agricultural College in Copen-hagen, of whom I shall speak later, informed me,however, that although old cows of this breed arerarely fatted, if fed up they will attain to a weight
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H-J o ■ w o oU w N THE KOLLE-KOLLE FARM 107 of from 1000 to 1200 lbs. Danish. He added thata three-year-old red Danish bullock in ordinary condi-tion scales 1500 lbs. Danish or over, and a bull up to2000 lbs. Danish, which seem fairly satisfactory weights. If the difficulty as regards the importation of livecattle could be surmounted by grace of our Boardof Agriculture, it certainly appears to me that it wouldbe well worth the while of some English milk-farmerto make a trial of these cattle, which on our pasturesand in our climate ought to do even better herethan in their native country. Until a strong andpractically unrelated stock was established, however,such an experiment would involve the occasionalimportation of fresh bulls. The ration supplied to Mr. Hansens cows in-cludes earthnut and soya cake with a proportion ofcrushed oats. The cake is fed to them in a peculiarand ingenious measure with a movable screw bottom,which can be set in such a fashion that each animalreceives it

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