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labour and interest on their money was £64 — a labourer's wage. 

 The English and the Dane apparently reach pretty much the same 

 result at the year's end. In comparing these two holdings it must 

 not, however, be forgotten that the scale of living in all ranks of 

 life in Denmark is simpler and less expensive than it is here, 

 though it must not be assumed that the small farmer is either 

 overworked or underfed. He may work longer, but he does less work 

 in the day than the Scotch crofter. He is thriftier and more careful 

 than the Scotch crofter, and he is as well nourished. These small 

 holdings, while giving the owner as good a hving as he would get 

 as a labouring man, give him more freedom, more independence, 

 and they form a stepping-stone to larger and better paying farms. 

 That is probably the most useful part they play in the agricultural 

 industry of Denmark. 



OBTAINING A FARMERS HISTORY 



