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purchasing it, as there does not seem to have been 

 any competition in the way of a large landowner 

 with a buying-up policy. 



SMALL HOLDINGS AT CALSTOCK AND ST. 

 DOMINICK, CORNWALL. 



These parishes are situated on the banks of the 

 River Tamar, where it divides Cornwall and Devon. 



They are the centre of the fruit-growing district 

 which supplies the earliest out-of-door English fruit 

 on the markets, and the greater quantity of it is 

 grown by small holders. There are also in the 

 neighbourhood many men renting agricultural 

 holdings of a larger size who appear to have been 

 enabled to work their way up on to farms, having 

 started as agricultural labourers and made money 

 in fruit-growing. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF DISTRICT. 



Except in the bottom of the valleys, the land is 

 not very fertile. There is, for the most part, a poor, 

 thin, stony soil, of no great depth, on a granite or 

 slaty rock. 



FRUIT-GROWING. 



The fruit is grown on the steep banks on either 

 side of the river, and on the south side of sheltered 

 valleys. The forwardness of the locality seems 

 mainly due to the natural position of the county, 

 and the protection afforded from frosts and winds 

 by the lie of the slopes, and the warmth for early 



