HOLDINGS WITHOUT RIGHTS 299 



SMALL FARMS WITHOUT FOREST RIGHTS. 



While most of the holdings on this estate are 

 worked in connection with forest rights, several 

 of the farms that have been divided are further 

 removed from the Forest, and carry no rights. A 

 larger acreage is necessary for a living in these 

 cases, and, though the results are not in every case 

 so satisfactory, they fully justify the policy of sub- 

 division. One large farm had been cut up by 

 adding the outlying fields to contiguous holdings ; 

 a new house and buildings had been put up for 

 30 acres, and the portion of the land round the 

 original farmhouse retained as another holding. 



The occupier of the 30 acres was a native of 

 the Forest district, but had been a gardener all his 

 life. He worked the place with two sons of four- 

 teen and fifteen, and had extra help at harvest 

 time. He had 4 acres of wheat and 2 of roots. 

 He kept nine milking-cows, and sold butter to 

 private customers. Besides four breeding sows, 

 he had a very large number of fattening pigs, 

 which he sold to a local butcher on certain dates, 

 sometimes supplying him with as many as forty 

 at once. He also grew peas for Southampton 

 Market. 



BENEFIT OF COMMON RIGHTS IN CONNECTION 

 WITH SMALL HOLDINGS. 



On visiting holdings such as the last one described 

 of the more normal type of ordinary agricultural 



