68 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



one way better equipped for intensive culture 

 than tlie large farmer has a significant bearing on 

 the whole question of tillage. It is the personal 

 factor which counts for so much in farming on 

 a small scale. On a very large farm it sinks 

 to vanishing point, and with it efficient 

 tillage. 



It is extraordinary how some of these 

 gardeners make a living out of a few acres 

 of land. Take a man, for instance, who bears 

 a well-known Evesham name — Agg. A few 

 years ago Mr. George Agg used to assist 

 other market gardeners in their labours ; now 

 he obtains a living from the four acres of fruit 

 garden that he rents. Another man, working 

 at Littleton on the land which the small 

 holders are purchasing through the County 

 Council, told me that he made a " good living " 

 from seven and a half acres — that is, from the 

 three acres he owned and the four and a half 

 acres he rented elsewhere. It is almost as 

 difficult to get a man to own to making a 

 " good living " from tilling the soil as it is 

 to get a lawyer to own to making a good 

 livelihood from conveying land from one owner 

 to another. Yet he said it simply, without 

 any desire to boast, for he knew that I myself 



