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standing that the rent will not be raised on 

 improvements. 



For arable land, up to 15s. an acre. 



For good pasture, up to 3 10s. an acre. 



The small holdings are held on a yearly tenancy, 

 with the assurance that no one shall be turned out 

 who pays his rent regularly and cultivates his land 

 fairly. Mr. Harris pays tithe, rates, and taxes. 



There are the usual evidences invariably found 

 where labouring men have the opportunity of get- 

 ting on to a bit of land of men who have worked 

 their way up to comparative prosperity. 



I visited the holding of one man who began life 

 as a drainer at 18s. a week. He started with a few 

 acres, and gradually increased his holding, part of 

 which is reclaimed moorland at 4s. an acre, and on 

 which a purchaser of the crop informed me he had 

 grown seventy bushels of oats to the acre. He now 

 farms 90 acres, keeps the village shop, and does 

 a large trade, buying up poultry and butter for 

 Torquay, finding employment for outside labour 

 beside that of his own family. 



Another holding of 14 acres was rented at 

 15 8s., including the house, by a man who worked 

 regularly at the slaughterhouse. He employed a 

 man two or three days a week at busy times, and 

 his wife managed the stock. He had six cows, two 

 mares and a foal, and pigs and poultry. The 

 pasture had all been mown for hay, and the cows 

 sent out on to the moor at Is. 6d. per head for the 

 whole summer. On 3 or 4 acres of tillage there 



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