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rather than the agricultural labourer. I do 

 not blame the County Council for this, for it is 

 natural to the Council to select men who have 

 sufficient capital with which to stock the land. 

 Here the labourer has not yet come into his 

 own. It is not like Evesham, where a man 

 practically has only to buy a spade or a fork, 

 and perhaps a few loads of manure, when he 

 makes a start. Here it is a matter of buying 

 a cow, or other live-stock equivalent to its 

 value. And it is evident that we are not going 

 to get very much farther with agricultural 

 production if the grass-fields of Somerset are 

 to be used only as accommodation land on 

 which to turn out a pony or graze a few sheep. 

 Grass-land must either be more heavily stocked 

 or else given over to those who have literally 

 put their hands to tlie plough. 



