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THE HIGH COST OF LIVING 



owners have increased year by year, until to-day 

 nine out of ten farmers own their own farms. 



These farmers of Denmark are distributed as 

 follows : 



The average size of the 248,000 farms of the first 

 five classes, which comprise nine-tenths of the land, 

 is but 39 acres. Of these, 68,000 farms average less 

 than one-half an acre each. The veiy large farms 

 of the old feudal nol^ility comprise only about one- 

 tenth of the total agricultm-al area. 



The people's high schools form the educational, 

 and fai'm ownership the economic, foundation of 

 agriculture in Denmark. And each reacts upon the 

 other. The peasant is willing to pay for education 

 because he realizes that it increases his efficiency and 

 the output of his farm. And education, in turn, 

 trains the farmer to self-reliance, to a knowledge 

 of politics and of co-operative group action as 

 well. 



As a result of these two agencies, Denmark has 

 become an agricultural state par excellence. One 



