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cultural labourer. Mr. Larsen is a man of standing in 

 his way, being a member of the Parish Council. He 

 has a wife, but no children. He built the house and 

 buildings at a cost of 2400 kroner (^133), I believe 

 largely by his own labour ; indeed if it were otherwise, 

 I am sure I do not know how he did it for the money. 

 At the time of my visit he was engaged in putting up 

 an excellent cart-shed with his own hands. 



His house was erected under the supervision 

 of the Small-holdings Commission for the Roskilde 

 District, to which all drawings and plans for such 

 dwellings must be submitted. It is thatched, and 

 comprises under one long roof the dwelling-place, a 

 store-room containing a chaff-cutter, and beyond this 

 the cow-house and pigsty e. In the dwelling are two 

 sitting-rooms, a kitchen at the back with a copper and 

 stove, and, as this couple have no children, one bed- 

 room. If there were children the second sitting-room 

 would be used as a sleeping chamber. 



The cow-house, which is good and suitable, has 

 accommodation for four cows and one horse. In the 

 piggery, that is roofed over as is usual in Denmark, 

 were a fine sow, ten growing and four young pigs of 

 the Danish breed. Here I saw a new thing, a half- 

 grown female pig with two well-developed teats 

 hanging from its throat. I was told that this pheno- 

 menon was very rare, but does occasionally occur in 

 the Danish breed, both with male and female animals. 

 It seems that pigs have been known to suckle their 

 young from these false teats. 



In addition to these pigs and sixty fowls, Mr. 

 Larsen's stock consisted of four good red Danish 

 cows, three of which stood blanketed in a field. 

 These he said he had bought out of his private 



