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farm of the purchaser of 14 acres, who is doing 

 well on ordinary farming lines. He cultivates 

 6 acres only of this land and lets the rest ; with 

 other land that he rents, however, he is farming 

 about 20 acres altogether. He keeps a horse, three 

 milking cows, five head of young stock, breeding 

 sows, and poultry. He grows wheat, oats, beans, 

 and mangels, and had a little grass land, but is 

 laying down more. He had put up several wooden 

 buildings and had moved the homestead buildings, 

 which he had bought in the sale, close to his house. 

 His wife and boy help on the farm and he occa- 

 sionally hires labour in harvest-time. His daughter 

 is able to earn Is. 8d. a day in fruit-picking time. 

 This man, who was a native of Cottenham, had 

 started as a farm-labourer. 



The purchaser of one of the 3-acre lots was 

 a farm-labourer. He had planted some raspberries ; 

 otherwise his land was under corn and potatoes. 

 His master lent him a horse to plough the land, 

 and he worked it himself after work hours. If he 

 could get more land he would be able to give 

 up regular work and get on better. 



The Foresters' allotments are all under corn and 

 roots, and look well cultivated. 



The local opinion as to the failure of the com- 

 pany as such was : first, that the land was bought 

 at too high a price ; secondly, that the scheme was 

 badly administered by people without local know- 

 ledge ; thirdly, owing to the importation of 

 * foreigners.' 



