188 WINTERSLOW, SALISBURY 



land. He had borrowed money from the Land 

 Court to build his house, and while paying it off, 

 and the purchase-money for the holding, he had got 

 outside work to do, and his wife had taken in 

 washing. He had no children at home. 



Amongst the men who held 1 acre and went 

 in more for market -gardening there was one 

 man only who had no regular trade ; but he 

 supplemented the income he derived from his 

 holding by going out to work in the summer. On 

 his acre he calculated he made an annual profit 

 of 20 from his garden, and from 6 to 8 both 

 on his pigs and his poultry. He kept four Berk- 

 shire pigs, buying them at 15s. to l, and selling 

 them after six months at from 7s. to 9s. a score. 



He kept thirty Leghorns, and went in for egg- 

 production solely, selling off the hens at two years 

 old. He knew each fowl individually, and so 

 could save the eggs for sitting from good layers 

 only. His fowl-run was divided into two parts ; 

 eveiy year he grew a green crop on one half, and 

 as soon as the crop was cleared moved the fowl 

 on to it, and grew a crop on the half they had 

 just left. In this way, as he pointed out, the fowl 

 did not rob any of the land that he could use for 

 garden purposes. He dug all his land and tried to 

 get all work well forward in the winter, so as to be 

 free to work outside in summer, and not have more 

 to do than he could manage in the evenings. He 

 was of opinion that a man must have outside work 

 to live on a holding of that size, and that if he had 



