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doing well, and has just bought a 3-acre freehold 

 in the district. His land was more under farm 

 crops than most of the holdings, although the only 

 stock he kept were pigs and poultry, for the latter 

 of which he went in largely. He was of opinion 

 that more of them ought to keep stock, and that a 

 little grass land would be a great advantage. This 

 man had also put up a house and buildings under 

 the County Council scheme for the sum of 347 3s., 

 for which he pays a yearly instalment of 14 8s. 6d. 

 for thirty-five years ; the instalment paid for his 

 three lots of land amounts to 24 Is. 4d., bringing 

 the total amount for the holding up to 38 9s. 10d., 

 which works out roughly at 2 12s. an acre. It 

 struck me that the cost of the buildings attached 

 to the house must be out of all proportion to their 

 value, as regards use, to this type of holding, where 

 practically the horse and pigs are the only stock 

 kept. In this case the larger size of the holding 

 keeps the actual yearly figure low per acre. 



(3) But on the next holding, where much the 

 same thing applies, although the house and build- 

 ings only cost 300, the man holds but 3 acres of 

 land, for which he pays 5 9s. 6d. ; the 12 Is. 9d., 

 however, which he pays for the house brings his 

 total yearly repayment up to 17 10s. 10d., or over 

 5 an acre. Applying this to the question of 

 putting up buildings for small holdings in such a 

 manner as to make the increased rent paid for the 

 land pay for the buildings, the amount of land put 

 to the holding will have to be calculated so as not 



