288 TYPE OF HOLDINGS MARKETS 



growing peas, early potatoes, and other vegetables 

 for the Bournemouth Market. 



The larger proportion of the men are now living 

 entirely on their holdings ; but in nearly every case 

 they had started with a small piece of land while 

 still working regularly for wages, and gradually 

 added to it until they had enough stock or capital 

 to work an acreage which would support them and 

 their families, when they would give up their 

 former professions. It seems possible to make a 

 living on 7 or 8 acres where there are common 

 rights and part of the land is devoted to market- 

 gardening. 



DISPOSAL OF PRODUCE. 



Every man has his pony and cart, with which he 

 takes his stuff fourteen miles by road to Bourne- 

 mouth once or twice a week. The produce is 

 mostly sold to shops, and a few hawk their stuff 

 round to private customers. Some of the men buy 

 up the produce of the very small holdings where 

 no horse is kept. Most of the garden produce, 

 butter, and poultry goes to Bournemouth. 



The other markets for stock, etc., are Poole 

 (fourteen miles) and Wimborne (eight miles). 



The nearest station, Verwood, is on a branch line 

 of the London and South-Western Railway running 

 from Salisbury to Wimborne, and is not of much 

 use in connecting with the best markets. 



