CHAPTER VI. 



THE FARMER AND LABOURER AS RURAL 

 COUNCILLOR. 



Though few farmers are ardently in favour 

 of small holdings, yet there is a type of farmer 

 who sits on county councils, who, whilst not 

 being a strong believer in small holdings, is 

 not unsympathetic. He does not like to see 

 any farms in his county going back for want 

 of thorough cultivation, and is willing to 

 purchase land where there is a large number 

 of approved applicants. Without this type 

 of farming county councillor, Worcestershire, 

 Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, and Norfolk 

 could not have gone ahead with small holdings 

 in the way in which they have done, though 

 in all these councils progress would have been 

 seriously retarded without the insistent appeal 

 of men who are not of the farming class. 



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