. Rural Denmark and its lessons. The Old House and the New, Ourupgaard A GREAT FARM 139 told me frankly, and without asking me to consider thisvolunteered information as confidential, that, not allow-ing for interest on any mortgages which he may haveraised (I have already explained that even rich peoplemortgage their real property in Denmark), he makes anet profit of £$ the acre out of his land. That is to saythat after paying everything his farming brings him inabout ,£20,000 per annum, independently, as I under-stand, of his large interest in the sugar factory. Howmany landowners in England
. Rural Denmark and its lessons. The Old House and the New, Ourupgaard A GREAT FARM 139 told me frankly, and without asking me to consider thisvolunteered information as confidential, that, not allow-ing for interest on any mortgages which he may haveraised (I have already explained that even rich peoplemortgage their real property in Denmark), he makes anet profit of £$ the acre out of his land. That is to saythat after paying everything his farming brings him inabout ,£20,000 per annum, independently, as I under-stand, of his large interest in the sugar factory. Howmany landowners in England are there who by lettingor farming their properties are able to pay into the banka net £3 per acre of profit every Michaelmas Day, thatis, directly or indirectly, from the growing produce ofthe earth ? Personally I have never met a single one. Mr. Tesdorpf s farm, or rather farms, are, I think,on the whole the most remarkable that I have seen inany land. Milk is one of their principal products, allof which, produced by 1100
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