150 RURAL DENMARK 



containing a circular cement water-tank and belt- 

 driven chaff-cutter. Also there were a splendid 

 piggery under cover, a calf-house and manure-tank 

 in course of building, a sunk storage place for beet, 

 water laid on everywhere, an implement shed with 

 an eight horse-power oil-engine that drove thrashing, 

 chaff-cutting, and pumping machinery, and was to 

 manufacture electric light not yet installed, a grinding 

 mill, and other conveniences. This engine cost 1750 

 kroner (^97). 



Mr. Rasmussen kept thirty-seven cattle in all, 

 which, by the way, had been saved in the fire owing to 

 the fortunate circumstance that they were tied to the 

 stalls with ropes that could be cut, and not with 

 chains. His cows produced 150,000 lbs. Danish of 

 milk per annum, all of which went to a co-operative 

 factory of which he is the chairman. Also he had 

 six horses, two of them colts, and had recently sold 

 two foals, a number of pigs, and two calves a heavy 

 stock for a farm of about 100 acres in all. Indeed 

 one of the mysteries of Danish farming is by what 

 means those who practise it manage to make a small 

 area of land support so many animals. I suppose that 

 the system of tethering offers a partial explanation ; 

 also a great deal of cake and other food-stuffs must 

 be bought. 



Here is Mr. Rasmussen's seven-year rotation for 

 any given field : 



(1) Wheat; (2) sugar-beet; (3) barley; (4) man- 

 gold on one half of the barley stubble and vetches 

 mixed with oats on the other half; (5) oats laid 

 down with clover ; (6) clover ; (7) fallow. 



Mr. Rasmussen employed four men. Among these 

 was a fodder-master who had been eight years in 



