338 HOLLAND COUNTY COUNCIL 



6 acres, let at from 2 10s. to 3 an acre. The 



initial expenses here were : 



< J s. d. 

 Surveying ... ... ... ... 3 11 6 



Stakes, etc. ... ... ... ... 1 2 1 



Gates, etc 950 



13 18 7 



The cost of conveying the land amounted to 

 36. 



The land acquired by the County Council, both 

 at Spalding and near Boston, is specially suitable 

 for small-holding cultivation, and is in the centre of 

 a district on which small holders are already well 

 established. The soil is naturally very productive 

 and is easily worked. The crops grown are chiefly 

 early potatoes, celery, cabbage, peas, and broad 

 beans, besides ordinary corn crops. Flowers and 

 bulbs are also gone in for to an increasing extent.* 



Many of the County Council tenants hold small 

 plots of land elsewhere, which gives them a suffi- 

 cient acreage to get an entire living on their own 

 land. Some of them earn wages at other occupa- 

 tions, but are anxious to acquire more land to 

 enable them to fill up all their time working for 

 themselves. These men are of opinion that from 

 12 to 15 acres is the most convenient size for one 

 man to work. On this type of holding farm crops 

 would be grown to fatten pigs and stock to supply 



* For a more detailed account of the methods of cultiva- 

 tion of the small holders in these districts, see Reports on 

 * The Holdings of the South Lincolnshire Small Holdings 

 Association, 1 and ' Small Holdings near Boston.' 



