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The owner of the larger peasant farm is a man well up in years. 

 He received no education after he left the elementary school, 

 probably because the Popular High Schools and Agricultural Schools 

 were not much in evidence then. His farm is situated near 

 Aarhuus, in Jutland. He bought it, including the stock, in 1H70, 

 for £3284. He did not get a loan at that time, but in 1888 he 

 obtained a loan of £2207 at 4| per cent. • Of this amount, £1 104 has 

 been repaid. His stock consists of 25 cows, 11 heifers, 2 bulls, 12 

 calves, 30 pigs, 70 hens, and 10 horses. The rotation of the farm 

 is : oats ; roots ; barley ; rye ; roots ; oats ; clover and grass ; clover 

 and grass. He breeds his own cattle, and purchases his seeds and 

 manures through a Co-operative Society. He disposes of his milk 

 to a private creamery, because it is in his immediate neighbourhood, 

 and more convenient than the nearest Co-operative Creamery. He 

 is a member, however, of a bacon-curing establishment. He 

 employs eight workers. None of the members of his family is 

 employed on the farm. The eldest son — when we were making 

 investigations — was proceeding to take over the farm ; the second 

 son is a mechanical engineer ; one of the daughters has married a 

 farmer, and the other one a carpenter. They have all attended the 

 Popular High Schools and the Agricultural Schools of Denmark. 

 His balance-sheet does him credit : — 



Balance-Sheet of 134 Acres Farm. 



It will be noticed that in the balance-sheet of the 84 acres 

 farm, the farmer, after paying all expenses, has a balance in 

 his favour of £325, Is. Id., made up of: family subsistence, 

 £111, 28. 2d., and surplus for work and interest, £213, 188. lid., 

 while in the balance-sheet of the larger farm the farmer has aft^r 



