On the medium and small sized farms one finds the cows tethered--usually in a straight line across the field. This eliminates the need for fences, it eliminates the need of cutting hay during the green season and it assures the best of fresh succulent feed as the stakes are moved by degrees across the field. It does require more labor in milking and carrying water which would make the system impractical in America.
In the last ten years red tile has supplanted thatch on many of the Danish farm homes. Home grown thatch, however, is needed for repairs to the older roofs.
Riding along on the train one sees in every village the Danish Evangelical Lutheran church. Usually they are white. Always they have these square towers in front.
When examined closely many of these churches are very artistic and in beautiful surroudings. It is customary also to have the community cemetery closely adjoining.
There is no character in the Folk High School work today of greater interest to Americans than Peter Manniche, who has founded an International High School at Elsinore. In this he is bringing together students from different nations and applying Bishop Grundtvig's principles of education to the problem of bringing "the gulf estrangement and suspicion, which exists among the nations of the world."
It is customary in Denmark today for farm buildings to be built together. Here we have a group more than a century old. The white section in the center is the living apartment.
Rather than a preponderance of military statues as in Germany, one finds throughout Denmark those which honor leaders in teaching, in writing and in the common every day affairs of life. Very few have more conspicuous recognition than Hans Christian Andersen, the well known writer of children's stories.
Near the viaduct over the railroad tracks in the heart of the city of Copenhagen there stands a monument which is distinctive of the nation's attitude toward agriculture. It has been referred to as the Danish farmer's statue of Liberty. It commemorates their relief from laws of serfdom.