RURAL COUNCILLORS. Ill 



lies a string of watering-places which should 

 form a ready market for farm produce during 

 the summer months. 



What has made Wayford so suitable a site 

 for small holders is not so much the gravel- 

 pits and the timber overhead — which, however, 

 are exceptional assets on an agricultural estate 

 where building material is required — nor even 

 the rail and water facilities, nor the excellent 

 co-operative organisation, but the kind, light, 

 though rather poor soil. 



As a rule either stubborn clay or chalky 

 land, with about four inches of top soil, is 

 marked out as suitable land for small holders 

 on which to break their spirit. Here is a soil 

 which can be ploughed with a pony or even 

 a donkey. On one side of the hedge I saw a 

 man ploughing with a pony thirteen hands 

 high, and on the other side an allotment 

 holder had a pair of donkeys harnessed to a 

 small Norfolk plough. And though spade 

 labour is comparatively easy on land as light 

 as this, yet it was interesting to find that the 

 plough was invariably used. 



Modern agricultural implements have 

 already been purchased by the Society, and a 

 plough with a pair of horses can be hired for 



