around the 18th century, this form was strongly challenged, and several high-ranking Danes worked to convey or remove the Danish staff band, one of them was "Lensgreve" Count A.G.

When Lassen had seen the changes at Sofiendal, he petitioned A. G. Moltke for permission to employ similar experiments on his farm Sprettingegård, under Turebyholm, which at the time was 9 tdr.

The title "first Zealand emigrant farmer" is otherwise attributed to the scholar Hans Jensen Bjerregaard, Gentofte under Hørsholm, who moved his farm out in 1766, half a dozen years later.

Knowledge was soon inquired about, and in 1768, that is, even at the time when the cities' fields were predominantly cultivated together, several towns bought wheat at Sprettingegården farm house.

[6] On 5 July 1788, Niels Lassen bought for 2000 rigsdaler 1st priority for 6 farms belonging to Benzonseje Estate (Today Risbyholm) by the Brown brothers.

[7] Niels' son Lars Lassen, who had previously been a clerk under his brother-in-law Jacob Rosted at Billesborg, was in this connection appointed manager of Benzonseje estate.