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separate arrangement, unconnected with the tenure of the house 
and the land, may be entered into by the landlord and his tenant, 
provided that it is not for more than one year. As an encourage- 
ment to the provision of these small labourers' holdings, the law 
permits the landlord to parcel out peasant-farms for that purpose. 
It also permits him to convert peasant-farms into plantations, 
provided he builds two houses for labourers, and gives each a 
suitable plot of land for each farm so planted. Notwithstanding 
these encouragements to the settlement of agricultural labourers 
in the rural districts, it Avill be seen, in the course of this Report, 
that the scarcity of laboui* in those parts of Denmark where 
agriculture comes into competition with commerce is, in conse- 
quence of the want of improved machinery, a serious obstacle to 
the further development of Danish farming. 
Statistics. 
The area of the kingdom of Denmark, comprising the penin- 
sula of Jutland, and the islands of Sealand, Fyen, Laaland, Falster, 
Langeland, and some smaller isles, is nearly 7 millions of Danish 
tonder-land, or about 9^ million acres. Of this extent of land 
nearly 2^ millions of English acres are annually sown with corn- 
crops, and not more than 350,000 acres are occupied with all 
kinds of pulse- and root-crops. The grass-land under rotation, 
in permanent pasture and in common grass, together amounts 
to nearly 3 million acres, while nearly half a million acres are 
annually in bare fallow. 
The annexed Table (I., p. 315) gives the details of the distri- 
bution of the land under the several crops in the different parts 
of the kingdom, while Table II. (p. 316) shows the distribution 
of landed property into large and small estates. 
An analysis of the latter Table gives the following as the 
average extent of each class of property and occupation in tonder 
of hard-corn : — 
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Estates of 12 tonder liard-corn'l 
29-4 
35-86 
16 -G 
30- 
23-22 
27-47 
Of 1 to 12 toiuler 
5-1 
5- 
4-G 
4-27 
3-25 
3-86 
Estates farmed by owner or on 'I 
5-7 
6-2 
4-75 
5- 
3-62 
4-42 
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5-1 
6- 
5- 
4-1 
4-93 
