grass and soiling crops, 40.7 per cent ; root crops, including potatoes, 
13.6 per cent; fallow area, 4.4 per cent; other crops, 1.3 per cent; 
and 2.8 per cent was occupied by gardens and farm buildings. 
Denmark is now a country of middle-sized and small farms. Her 
large estate farms are continually decreasing in number, while the 
small farms are increasing. According to the recent official survey 7 
there are 205,925 farms in Denmark each comprising an area over 
1.36 acres. There are only 1,335 farms with an acreage of 296 acres 
and over, and their aggregate acreage makes up only 9.7 per cent 
of the agricultural land area in the whole country. A large farm 
within this group is commonly referred to as an estate farm 
(Herregaard). Then there is another group of 4,039 large farms 
(Proprietaergaarde) where the acreage ranges between 148 and 296 
acres. 
Fig. 5. — A modern Danish farmstead. 
The farmers operating the middle-size farms, however, dominate 
the land area in Denmark to-day; 66 per cent of the total agricul- 
tural land area is found in 91,410 (or 44.5 per cent of the total 
number of farms) middle-size farms (Bdndergaarde), ranging in 
size from 24.7 to 148 acres. The bulk of these farms have an 
acreage around 50 to 60 acres. (See fig. 5.) Many of the farmers 
on these middle-size farms are direct descendants from the old 
peasant stock. 
There are 109,145 small-farm holdings, ranging in size from 1.36 
to 24.7 acres. While this group comprises 52.9 per cent of the total 
number of farms, their aggregate land area amounts to only 13.6 
7 Statistifrke Meddeleser Arealets Benyttelse i Dun mark July 1*5, 1919. 4 Hiikko 61 Bind 
2 Hafte. Published by Danmark's Statistiske Departemenl in L921, with additions and 
corrections to Include data of similar Burvey In North Slesvig in 1U20, 
