260 POSSIBILITIES 



In the following reports illustrations will be 

 found of what has been done by a few landowners, 

 under varying conditions, who have pursued this 

 latter policy. 



THE POSSIBILITIES OF AN ESTATE 

 FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL 

 HOLDINGS. 



Before giving them in detail, I propose very 

 briefly to consider what are the essential points to 

 be taken into account in reviewing the possibilities 

 for the creation of small holdings on any particular 

 estate. 



It would seem to be an important factor in the 

 success of any scheme that the supply of small 

 holdings should come, in the first instance, as an 

 answer to a well-established local demand that is 

 to say, that the small holdings should, as it were, 

 grow out of the agricultural or other conditions of 

 the district, and not be introduced as a new order 

 of things on experimental lines. 



This statement does not mean that it would not 

 be possible to initiate types of small-holding cultiva- 

 tion in districts where they are not now to be 

 found, for there are many instances of the suc- 

 cessful introduction of such new types through the 

 endeavours or the expert local knowledge of one 

 man. 



But without this rather special knowledge, which 



