J 2 RURAL DENMARK 



horse-power oil-engine which, amongst other work, 

 manufactures the electric light. 



In answer to my questions, our conductor informed 

 me that farming was profitable in that neighbourhood. 

 He added with a smile that his employer, who like 

 most agriculturists in Denmark owns his farm, kept a 

 motor-car. Certainly the appearance of that gentle- 

 man's very comfortable house, a long, one-storied 

 (building, seemed to suggest that more is made out 

 of a hundred acres in this part of Denmark than either 

 the landlord or the tenant, or both of them together, 

 ; expect to receive from a like area in England. Per- 

 haps the fact that the co-operative milk factory lies 

 within a quarter of a mile may have a bearing on the 

 case. Or there may be other reasons with which I 

 am not acquainted. 



