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As instances of how fruit-growing had enabled 

 agricultural labourers to rise from their position, 

 I came across the following cases : 



1. The son of a labourer now occupying a farm 

 of 150 acres. 



2. A man who had worked for 9s. a week and 

 took to fruit-growing fifty years ago. Now his son 

 owns land worth 20,000. 



3. A labourer who took an ordinary field off a 

 farm and planted it with fruit with a partner. 

 Now he has bought 5 acres of land at 100 an 

 acre, and lives on it entirely. 



An interesting case was that of a man who was 

 one of a family of ten, and had worked on a farm 

 for 15s. a week, rising to 18s. as a foreman. After 

 thirty years' service he went into partnership with 

 his employer over 3 acres of coppice land, for 

 which they paid 5 a year rent. They grubbed 

 out all the roots at a cost of 16 an acre, and 

 planted it the first year with potatoes and then 

 with strawberries. By the end of the term of ten 

 years they each received 300 profit from the sale 

 of fruit. His employer gave up his interest in the 

 land after some years, and the man took it all over. 

 He subsequently took 20 acres more land covered 

 with bracken, furze, and roots, and treated it in the 

 same way. At the time of my visit it was planted 

 with strawberries, raspberries, black currants, goose- 

 berries, plums, and apples. The fruit is sent direct 

 to markets all over England. Fifty workers are 

 employed in the strawberry season. Three or four 



