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are paid half-yearly. The holdings were allotted by 

 ballot. Of the tenants, twenty-eight are agricultural 

 labourers, one is a carpenter, one a baker, one a 

 grocer, one travels with a show in summer. All 

 the holders live in or near the village. Many of the 

 labourers are in regular employment ; a number of 

 them are jobbing labourers, and others are employed 

 in dyking. There is much piece-work to be had 

 all round on the large farms, and the men leave off 

 at four or five o'clock, which gives them time to 

 work on their holdings. 



The crops grown are largely wheat, potatoes, 

 and mangels. On many of the plots a corner is 

 devoted to peas, beans, radishes, and other vege- 

 tables for their own consumption. On two or 

 three plots a wooden pigsty has been put up by 

 the men, and in one case a holder with a big 

 family, who had been an agricultural labourer all 

 his life, has built a very efficient wooden stable, 

 pigsty, and tool-shed, and keeps a useful-looking 

 pony, with which, I was told, he worked his land. 



At the time of my visit (May, 1905) there were 

 some fine crops of wheat well up on several of the 

 plots. The average yield of corn is about 8 coombs 

 (1 coomb = 18 stone) to the acre, and 11 and 12 

 are usual in a good season. 



The holder who owned the travelling show kept 

 a lot of horses for the purpose, which he used in 

 winter for ploughing and working the land of the 

 others who were in regular employment. He was 

 of opinion that an agricultural man with 1 acre 



