376 Report on the Agriculture of Denmark, icitli a Note on 
fixed by Government I believe, at about 5s. per acre, which 
the labourer pays his employer for the horse-cultivation of his 
land. Mr. Rainals remarks that " in Holstein wages are a 
little higher than in the kingdom or in Schleswig;" and this is 
still true of the marshes, but not of the Geest, where wages are 
about I5. per diem, the labourers paying about 3Z. per annum 
for a cottage and 5 or 6 acres of land. 
In Denmark and the Duchies certain privileges or perquisites 
are given to the labourers in addition to their daily pay, the 
keep for two sheep being most common ; and, to eke this out, 
the labourers carefully mow every green bank and roadside-strip 
of grass. In the dairy-districts an allowance of skim-milk is 
not uncommon, and sometimes wood or turf. In the more 
remote districts of North Jutland the system of payment in 
kind still lingers, and the following may be given as an ex- 
ample : — 23 bushels of rye, 23 bushels of barley, and 5/. in 
money per annum ; also cottage and garden rent free, 4 pints of 
skim-milk daily, food and land for two sheep, turf, and a pig 
six weeks old. In return the man gives his services, and his 
wife is bound to work when required for Is. per day in summer, 
and 9f?. per day in winter. The following plan (Fig. 13) of two 
cottages (or rather one cottage for two families) on the farm 
just referred to, avIII give a little life to the bare figures I have 
Fig. 13. — Plan of a pair of Labourers' Cottages on the Farm of 
3Ir. Branth, near Aalborg. 
quoted. The ground-floor of each cottage consists of a single 
room for the use of the labourer and his family, by day as well 
as by night, with a store-room, a pig-stye, and a sheep-pen at 
the back and under the same roof; above this floor is simply 
a loft for storing winter-supplies of hay, corn. Sec. Between the 
two cottages, but under the continuous roof, is a lobby with a 
single cooking- apparatus, which is used in common by both 
families. 
