. Rural Denmark and its lessons. ime in every day. I have nodoubt that it is most useful to the agriculturists of thatcountry, and may be reckoned as one of the factors oftheir apparent success. Conducted by Mr. Rasmussen, I visited the pump-ing-station of Boto Nors, where lies the reclaimed landof which I have spoken. This reclamation, said to beone of the most successful in Denmark, was begun in1870. Since that date 4000 tondeland have beenwon, leaving 5000 tondeland, which lie 5 feet belowsea-level, still to be reclaimed. This 12,000-acre swamp belonged to the State,which granted it, subjec
. Rural Denmark and its lessons. ime in every day. I have nodoubt that it is most useful to the agriculturists of thatcountry, and may be reckoned as one of the factors oftheir apparent success. Conducted by Mr. Rasmussen, I visited the pump-ing-station of Boto Nors, where lies the reclaimed landof which I have spoken. This reclamation, said to beone of the most successful in Denmark, was begun in1870. Since that date 4000 tondeland have beenwon, leaving 5000 tondeland, which lie 5 feet belowsea-level, still to be reclaimed. This 12,000-acre swamp belonged to the State,which granted it, subject, as I gathered, to a nominalrent of 200 kroner {£11) per annum, to a co-operativecompany of adventurers, whose property the re-claimed land remains in proportion to their company obtained a first loan of 60,000 kroner(^3325), and subsequently another loan of 22,000kroner (^i 133, 10s.), with which to provide windmotors to keep the reclaimed land adequately could not discover that any other moneys had been. Blanketed Cows on Mr. Chr. Larsens Farm
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