290 
Agriculture of Denmark. 
If the farm-servant lives in a neighbouring^ cottage, and is paid, 
earlier stated, in corn, the expense may be thus 
given :- 
£. 
s. 
G. 
Pasture and food for 1 cow, 'A sheeti, and 1 pitr 
1 
10 
0 
2 
17 
4 
0 
15 
in 
lO 
5 barrels of rye, at 13s. Gd. .. 
3 barrels of barley, at lis. 3d. .. \ 
0 
10 
3 barrel of buck-wheat, at 9s. .. i 
. 6 
2 
IG 
0 
14 
0 
0 
The farm-servants of the yeomen (both male and female) gene- 
rally receive half their wages in wool, linen, cotton goods, flax, &c., 
and by this means their masters pay perhaps one-quarter less in 
wages than larger proprietors. In Holstein wages are a little higher 
than in the kingdom or in Sleswig. The wages for day-labourers 
may be estimated at from 10^/. to !.<>. 3d. for males in the 
summer, and about Id. in the winter ; for females at from 8c?. to 
lOd. in the summer, and from bid. to 7d. in the winter, but they 
receive no board or lodging. 
The wages of those engaged during harvest only are generally 
paid in kind, and may be estimated at one quarter of rye, and 
one quarter of barley for a man, and 5^- bushels of rye and 
5^- bushels of barley for a female, for the season. The Danish 
farm-labourer is generally well off, and, while he is without 
family, is able to save pait of his wages, as is sufficiently proved 
by the large sums of money placed in the savings-banks by this 
class. 
Agricultural improvements have of late increased the demand 
for I'arm-labour ; many Swedes have, therelbre, been engaged, 
especially in Jutland ; but, as they are considered inferior work- 
men, and are frequently persons of indifferent character, the 
Danish labourer is preferred, and generally receives to the extent 
of 1/. 2s. 6d. to 1/. 13a-. yrf. higher wages annually ; the German 
labourers, who of late have emigrated to this country, are a 
superior class, and are much employed in the brick-yards and in 
cutting turf. 
The system of Uvinc/ in Fellowship, with equal Division of Land, 
seems early to have existed here as well as elsewhere, and it was 
no doubt the proper course for the colonization of the country. 
Two reasons probably led to its adoption, viz., the protection it 
afforded against robbers and wild beasts, and the facility pro- 
vided for tlie cultivation of land. In Denmark, when a new 
tract of land was to be cultivated, several persons united for the 
