120 RURAL DENMARK 



(^194) to erect, and seemed cheap at the money. 

 The land was good and well farmed, and their stock 

 consisted of two cows, a heifer, four pigs, fowls and 

 ducks, and a horse. This horse they hired out to do 

 carting, which, it was explained to me, " enabled them 

 to live." I gathered that these good people did not 

 find it too easy to make both ends meet and pay the 

 interest on their mortgages. This rather bore out 

 Mr. Hansen's opinion that 10 tondeland of that soil 

 are necessary to keep a family, especially when all or 

 most of the capital is borrowed. 



Not far from this place I saw a herd of 115 cows 

 that belonged to a farm called Hillerod's-holm Gaard 

 being milked in the open field by Polish or Swedish 

 girls. It was a pretty sight. 



Hillerbd, to judge by the amount of building in 

 progress, must be a prosperous little town. In the 

 waiting-room of the station here were hung some very 

 good engravings. On inquiry I was informed that 

 these and similar pictures are provided in such places 

 by Government to encourage a sound taste in art 

 among the people. 



