RURAL COUNCILLORS. 105 



quicker stroke, and I seem to be getting the 

 benefit of it.' " 



Here at Potter Heigham the Parish 

 Council consist entirely of working men, and I 

 lighted on the chairman hoeing cabbages on his 

 holding of six acres. He keeps three cows 

 and a sow, and does some carting for the 

 other holders. Black-currants and raspberries 

 are the two chief crops cultivated on the 

 allotments here as well as at Hickling and at 

 Ingham. Black - currant picking was over 

 when I was at Potter Heigham, but raspberries 

 were still being picked by the wives and the 

 children while the husbands were working on 

 the farms. Individual marketing was, un- 

 fortunately, the rule here as nearly everywhere 

 else ; and j udging from the prices being paid 

 by the dealers for the raspberries and black- 

 currants, the middleman must be reaping a 

 small fortune out of those who labour in the 

 fruit gardens. There was some talk of the 

 formation of a co - operative society being 

 evolved out of the murmurous discontent, 

 and it is to be hoped that the village school- 

 master, with the aid of the Agricultural 

 Organisation Society, will achieve something 

 before this book has been printed. 



