86 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



though he were witnessing a pastoral play 

 especially staged for his benefit with girls in 

 their sun-bonnets forming the Arcadian chorus. 



Market gardening here is carried on con- 

 currently with stock-keeping, and corn crops 

 are grown for the sake of the straw as much 

 as for the grain, in order to get bedding for 

 the horses, pigs, and cows, and finally to make 

 manure- heaps. The fine cart-horses that 

 some of these holders possessed and bred 

 showed how individual attention to heavy live- 

 stock pays even on a few acres. 



Marketing, unfortunately, is carried on in 

 the usual individualistic way, excepting 

 in the case of one group of small holders 

 farming 170 acres, who have formed a co- 

 partnership society. Most of the potatoes 

 appear to go up to London, whilst other 

 vegetables and fruit find their way to the 

 Midlands and northern markets. A great 

 number of salesmen are tried by the small 

 holders, each one pathetically believed in for 

 a short time, in the way that many men rush 

 off to a quack when they are ill. 



A great deal of the fruit goes to jam- 

 makers ; not only fruit, but, I regret to say, 

 carrots as well, which can easily be discovered 



