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told me frankly, and without asking me to consider this 

 volunteered information as confidential, that, not allow- 

 ing for interest on any mortgages which he may have 

 raised (I have already explained that even rich people 

 mortgage their real property in Denmark), he makes a 

 net profit of 3 the acre out of his land. That is to say 

 that after paying everything his farming brings him in 

 about ,20,000 per annum, independently, as I under- 

 stand, of his large interest in the sugar factory. How 

 many landowners in England are there who by letting 

 or farming their properties are able to pay into the bank 

 a net $ per acre of profit every Michaelmas Day, that 

 is, directly or indirectly, from the growing produce of 

 the earth ? Personally I have never met a single one. 



Mr. Tesdorpfs farm, or rather farms, are, I think, 

 on the whole the most remarkable that I have seen in 

 any land. Milk is one of their principal products, all 

 of which, produced by 1100 cows, goes daily to Mr. 

 Busck at the Copenhagen Milk-supply Company. 

 The milk from this herd brings in a great number of 

 thousands of pounds sterling a year, how many I cannot 

 exactly remember, and the price paid by Mr. Busck is 

 21 ore (say 2^d.) for 2 kilos, or about 4J lbs. English. 



The first farm I visited at Ourupgaard was one of 

 700 acres with a beautiful cow-shed containing 200 

 cows. These cows produce on the average 7600 lbs. 

 English of milk per annum. Some of them, however, 

 do much better. Thus I saw two that had yielded 

 14,000 lbs. Danish each in 1909, or the enormous 

 total of over 15,000 lbs. English, with the good 

 average of 3.65 per cent, of butter-fat. Also there 

 was a heifer that gave 9400 lbs. Danish of milk 

 with the extraordinary percentage of 4.2 of butter-fat, 

 equalling 414 lbs. of butter for the year. All these 



