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CHAP. PAGE 



VIII. Legislative Action in Favour of Small Holdings . . . .125 



a. The Small Holdings Acts 125 



b. The Working of the Act of 1907 147 



IX. The Respective Economic Advantages of the Large and Small 



Holding . . . . . . . . . .154 



Introductory ........... 154 



A. In relation to the various branches of Agriculture . . 156 



a. Corn-Production . . . . * . . .156 



b. Vegetable and Fruit Growing . , . . . .162 



c. Stock Farming ......... 168 



(1) Cattle-breeding . . . . . . . 168 



(2) Dairying 172 



(3) Pig-keeping 178 



(4) Poultry-keeping 178 



(5) Pedigree Stock-breeding . . . . . .179 



d. Summary and Conclusions 180 



B. General Advantages and Disadvantages . . . .183 



X. Agricultural Co-operation 187 



XI. Historical Retrospect and Present Outlook 200 



APPENDIX I. The modern Small Farmer and the Question of Home 



Colonisation: a Problem of Sociology . . . .214 



APPENDIX II. Statistics relating to the Geographical Distribution of 



Large and Small Farms 223 



APPENDIX 1 1 1. List of Authorities quoted 230 



INDEX 243 



Journal R. A. S.= Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. 



Report of 1 88 1 = Report of the Royal Commission on the Depressed Condition 

 of the Agricultural Interest, 1880-2. 



Small Holdings Report, 1889= Report from the Select Committee on Small 

 Holdings, 1889. 



Report of 1 894 ** First (Second, etc.) Report of the Royal Commission on the 

 subject of Agricultural Depression, 1894-7. 



Final Report = Final Report of the Royal Commission on the subject of Agri- 

 cultural Depression, 1894-7. 



Small Holdings Report, 1906= Report of the Departmental Committee ap- 

 pointed by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to enquire into the subject of 

 Small Holdings in Great Britain, 1906. 



