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ducive to success. They must necessarily be of 

 a kind which supplement or counterbalance the 

 limitations of an area which is not capable of 

 yielding a sufficient return for the labour put into 

 it to supply a man with an entire living. First, 

 the holdings may be situated near some market, 

 causing such a demand for the type of produce 

 grown that the relatively high price obtained in 

 consequence may adequately pay for the greater 

 expense involved in growing it under unfavourable 

 conditions. As an example we may take that 

 type of holding near a large town where vegetables 

 are produced. The soil may be poor, the climate 

 unpropitious, but the mere fact of being in the 

 proximity of a good retail market may make it 

 worth a man's while to go in for intensive cultiva- 

 tion, and put in a lot of hand labour. In this 

 case it is the market which is the predominating 

 factor insuring success. 



Another factor which, by supplementing the 

 limits of a small area, insures success is the 

 presence of conditions affording other labour as 

 an adjunct as, for instance, the proximity of 

 mines and local industries, or surrounding agri- 

 cultural conditions affording much piece-work not 

 only hoeing and harvesting, but draining, dyking, 

 quarrying, etc. That is to say, soil may be poor, 

 climate may be bad, markets may be distant, but 

 small holdings flourish, and are a great benefit to 

 their occupiers, if there is any possibility of earning a 

 wage outside. 



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