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soil and thirty reclaimed marsh. This property was 

 also inherited, Mr. Larsen's family having been in 

 possession of it for some generations, but on it there 

 are both a first and a second mortgage, I do not know 

 to what amount. 



The farmhouse is one of the most charming in 

 appearance that I saw in Denmark, being a fine old 

 timbered building arranged in a quadrangle. Attached 

 to it is an excellent steading, including a barn then 

 filled with wheat, barley, and oats, a good cow and 

 horse stable, a roofed-in yard for manure, and a 

 storage pit which held 35,000 kilos of sugar-beet 

 refuse or schnetzel. 



Mr. Larsen kept forty horned stock, of which 

 twenty-seven were cows, also six working and five 

 young horses. Milk is his stand-by, and as usual 

 goes to a co-operative dairy. His average yield was 

 7700 lbs. Danish per cow, but he expected that this 

 would rise to 8000 lbs. per cow in the following 

 season. He owned, and showed me with pride, a prize- 

 winning Jutland stallion named " Franz of Munkedal," 

 valued at between 5000 and 6000 kroner (or say ^300), 

 which is worked with the other horses, and several 

 foals and young animals bred from it. Also he had 

 two fine mares, the mother and sister of Franz, 

 one of which had taken a first prize at some large 

 show. In the byre stood a noted bull named " Cyrus," 

 co-operatively owned by four or five farmers, and 

 kept on this place. This animal has raised the butter- 

 fat average of its offspring by \ per cent., so that 

 now this stands at over 4 per cent. 



Mr. Larsen grew the usual crops of wheat, barley, 

 oats, and sugar-beet, and I saw his fine cows, all of 

 them blanketed, pegged out upon a clover field. The 



