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to these and therefore also on the island. To the largest Mull holding 12 

 acres of arable land pertained, to the others 5, 4, 3 or less. The fifteen new 

 holdings on the Argyllshire mainland were more important, their arable 

 land var^nng from 34 to 680 acres in extent. 



Of the Invernesshire new holdings 75, their arable land varying in area 

 from 16 to 100 acres, were formed on the island of South Uist. Each of the 

 remaining four new holdinges in this county, those namely which were on the 

 mainland, had from 14 to 88 acres of arable land. A share of common pas- 

 ture was assigned to eah Invernessshire holding, none of them having other 

 pasture land. 



The far more valuable Perthshire land lay on the estates of Bread- 

 albane and Inchmartine and was distributed in new holdings of approximately 

 uniform size, the arable land of each being from 39 to 55 acres in area. 



We should notice finally the 29 holdings formed on the estate of Eli- 

 bank in the lowland countj^ of Haddington, probably the most fertile dis- 

 trict in Scotland. These fall roughly into three classes, those consisting 

 approximately of 5, 10 and 20 to 30 acres of arable land. One exceptional 

 holding has 49 acres. Neither common nor other pasture attaches to any 

 of them. Their proximity to Edinburgh and some less towns renders them 

 suitable places for intensive agriculture. It will be noticed that they are 

 .far more highly rented than any of the other new holdings. 



As regards the enlargement of existing holdings the lyand Court effected 

 this between 1911 and 1916 in the case of 348 holdings, to which were added 

 altogether 2,838 acres of arable land, 536 acres of pasture land and 27,172 

 acres of common pasture. 



Schemes were authorized in 1915 for the enlargement of 61 holdings, all 

 of which lay in the crofting counties where the evil of holdings economically 

 too small exists as it does not elsewhere in Scotland. The following table 

 gives details as to the enlargements thus authorized : 



Twenty-one schemes for the enlargement of holdings in Argyll, Inver- 

 ness and Ross and Cromarty, authorized in 1915 and previous years, were 



