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holdings as a means of an entire living. One of 

 these is a dairyman on 30 acres. His stock con- 

 sisted of four cows, two yearlings, pigs, and a horse. 

 He had started a retail milk trade in the neighbour- 

 hood, and was receiving 4d. a quart. His father, 

 who was a retired coachman, lived with him, and 

 went the milk rounds, leaving him free to work on 

 the land. Three acres only were arable, on which 

 he grew winter fodder. He had a small garden, 

 and had planted some fruit-trees. He appeared to 

 be doing well, but considering the few head of stock 

 kept, if he had not this opportunity of getting a big 

 price for his milk at no cost in the way of delivery, 

 one does not see how it could be managed. 



The only other bona fide small holder was a 

 market-gardener who hailed from Bedfordshire. 

 He had 11^ acres, which had been all grass land, 

 but which he was by degrees getting under market- 

 garden cultivation, entirely by spade labour. The 

 first year he employed men to trench the ground at 

 Is. 6d. a pole. 



He had planted apples, plums and damsons, 

 currants, strawberries and raspberries, with vege- 

 tables between the rows. He sold his stuff to 

 greengrocers in Redhill and Reigate. The draw- 

 back to the place, in his opinion, was the difficulty 

 in disposing of the produce : the distance to markets 

 was so great that half a day was wasted several times 

 a week getting rid of the stuff. There was work 

 on the place at the time for five or six men, which, 

 if the capital were available to invest in this way, 



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