TWO PEASANT FARMS 



The peasant farms of Denmark average 93 acres. Of the total 

 cultivated area of Denmark, 60 per cent, is composed of these 

 farms. They are pre-eminently the backbone of Danish agriculture. 

 We take two farms of this class, one extending to {{4 acres, and the 

 other extending to about 107 acres arable and 27 acres of meadow. 

 The owner of the 84 acre farm was educated at a High School and 

 Agricultural School. He is a married man with two children, a son 

 and a daughter, both at the present time at a Popular High School 

 in Denmark. His farm is situated near Mailing in Jutland. He 

 bought it in 1886 for £2775, the price including the stock, as it 

 invariably does in Denmark. He had no loan at that time, but 

 the following year he got a loan of £555, the interest payable being 

 4 per cent. None of the loan has been repaid. His stock consists 

 of 30 cows, 14 young cattle, 40 pigs, and 6 horses. The rotation 

 of his farm is : oats ; roots ; barley ; clover grass ; rye ; roots ; 

 barley ; oats ; clover grass ; and clover grass. Last year he dressed 

 his rye with superphosphate and nitrate of soda, the other crops 

 with dung and urine. He buys his seed, manures, stock, etc., 

 privately, but he is a member of a co-operative creamery by which 

 he disposes of his produce. He employs six workers — a cowman, 

 who gets 800 kroner a year ; three men, who are paid respectively 

 300, 200, and 100 kroner ; and two maid servants, who each receive 

 150 kroner. The men are sometimes mere boys. That accounts 

 for the small wages in some cases. His last balance-sheet is as 

 follows : — 



Balance-Sheet op 84 Acres Farm. 



Income. 



