222 READINGS IN RURAL ECONOMICS 



produce, the expense of making the transfer so great and the 

 land-credit system so poor that farmers do not often care to in- 

 dulge in the luxury of landownership. On the other hand, the 

 relation between landlord and tenant is very satisfactorily arranged, 

 the farmers are, as a rule, contented with the present system, and 

 the fields of England prove that landownership on the part of 

 farmers is not essential to good agriculture. 



