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means. Also he had a horse, an aged but useful 

 animal, lightly built though sufficiently strong for 

 his land. It cost him 300 kroner (16, 12s. 6d.). 

 The milk goes to a co-operative dairy which stands 

 about half a mile away. In 1909 Mr. Larsen's cows 

 produced 30,000 lbs. Danish, which he sold for 1200 

 kroner (66, 10s.), plus the value of the skim milk 

 which was returned to him. Also in that year he 

 sold pigs to the value of 2600 kroner (^144) and 

 purchased cake and other feeding-stuffs at a cost of 

 2500 kroner (^"138, 10s.). He told me that during 

 the previous two years, after paying his interest to 

 the State, there had been "a bit over." As a matter 

 of fact, in 1909 this "bit" amounted to a surplus of 

 800 kroner (^"44, 6s. 8d.). 



Mr. Mortensen, who heard this statement, added 

 that he also had himself saved money out of a similar 

 holding. 



Mr. Larsen said that he looked to his cows, pigs, 

 and poultry for his income, as he sold no corn. The 

 pigs, like the milk, went to a co-operative society, but 

 the eggs he disposed of privately. He buys his arti- 

 ficial manure (super-phosphates) and calf-cake through 

 another co-operative society. Among his implements 

 I saw a waggon that cost 170 kroner (^9, 8s. 6d.), 

 a market-cart bought second-hand for 120 kroner 

 (6, 13s.), and a corn-dressing machine, besides a 

 plough, a roller, and two sets of harrows, all designed 

 to be drawn by one horse. He borrowed his liquid-^ 

 manure apparatus from a neighbour. 



I inspected this article, which, in view of the con- 

 siderable cost of such machines in England (my own 

 came to about ^22), deserves a few words of descrip- 

 tion, especially as all I saw in Denmark were of the 



