256 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



you can easily see how the individual system 

 breaks down. The spectacle of small holders 

 each wasting time and money in driving 

 his own trap with a small freight three or 

 four miles to the station and back again is 

 one which would call forth derision both from 

 the Irishman and the Dane. 



The estate is suitable for dairy farming, 

 and there is a tendency in the small holders 

 to gravitate in that direction, though one of 

 the more enterprising of the fruit-growers has 

 obtained a small motor car, and uses it daily 

 during the season to market his strawberries. 

 He, at any rate, does not feel bound to sell 

 at any price rather than bring the stuff home 

 again when eight miles from home. He simply 

 burns a little more petrol and vanishes into 

 another town. 



In spite of its non-success from the agri- 

 cultural point of view, the cutting up of the 

 Cudworth farm has been successful in giving 

 a country home to some forty or fifty town 

 dwellers and their families, who now replace 

 the one farmer and his two labourers — the sum 

 total of the old regular farm staff. To succeed 

 agriculturally, the estate should have been cut 

 up into ten, instead of fifty holdings. Excel- 



