TYPE OF HOLDING 243 



One man only has gone in for market-gardening. 

 He is a jobbing gardener, and holds 2 roods. He 

 grows currants, gooseberries, and strawberries, sell- 

 ing them as plants. He does very well, and the 

 committee would like to extend his holding, but 

 no land is available. 



A certain amount of stock is kept besides the 

 horses the men use in their other occupations. 

 Five of the tenants have cows one man as many 

 as six and a fair retail trade in milk is done in the 

 village. Several have sheep, and some have pigs 

 kept at home. The latter are being increasingly 

 kept ; at one time they were not much gone in for, 

 owing to trouble with swine fever. 



DISPOSAL OF PRODUCE. 



Leighton Buzzard is the nearest market town, 

 three miles distant. Aylesbury is nine miles away 

 on a good high road. But the produce is for the 

 most part grown for the men's own use, for fodder- 

 ing their horses, etc. Some of the roots are sold 

 to farmers and cattle-dealers, and the potatoes in 

 Leighton market. The wheat is generally thrashed 

 at harvest and sold at once ; the remainder of the 

 crops are used for the various live stock. The 

 committee make no restrictions as to selling 

 produce, their powers being so autocratic that 

 they can immediately take steps to stop any man 

 starving his land. 



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