Danish Examples As I have just returned from Denmark, husbandry
is a subject difficult to avoid. One of the stronger political bodies consists largely of small farmers, and I doubt whether any country has a rural civilisation more pleasant to witness. Drought has prevailed there, too ; but (or therefore) the harvest has been supremely good ; the best ever, some say. Doubtless one school of theorists would have regarded the spectacle with contempt. One of the commonest objects when I left was a single furrow plough drawn by a horse and directed by a man who perhaps employed no regular labour. I saw one harvester-thresher (designed in Sweden) which was engaged in a field already dealt with by the cutter-and-binder. and using only its threshing arrangement. The sudden access of, so to say, contemporary threshing in England has revealed a surprising deficiency. There is nowhere to store the grain, and some markets were flooded.
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