TYPICAL HOLDINGS 401 



are only content with the best land off a larger 

 farm, it is interesting to note that the whole of this 

 lot was the worst piece of a larger farm, which was 

 let to the Parish Council in a very bad condition, 

 and that it is now well cultivated and clean for the 

 most part. The Parish Council tenants are all 

 men with some other occupation, or men on small 

 grass holdings, to whom the acquisition of an 

 arable allotment is of great benefit, inasmuch as it 

 enables them to work their original holdings more 

 economically. 



As an example of the class of tenant, the holder 

 of one lot has a freehold of 5 acres. He keeps a 

 pony and two cows and has sheep on the common ; 

 he does occasional job work. Another man goes 

 out sheep-shearing and pig-killing and faggoting. 

 His Parish Council land enables him to fill up 

 his spare time profitably, when, without land, 

 he would have been out of work. On one of 

 his plots he was growing peas for Malvern 

 Market. 



Of the same type was a small dealer, who bought 

 up fruit and poultry in the district for Worcester 

 Market, and worked his holding at odd times. 



One tenant works regularly at a stone-quarry. 

 He turns out young cattle on the common, and 

 his allotment ground enables him to eke out the 

 2 acres of land attached to his own cottage. 



Reasons of Success. The reasons for the success 

 of small holdings in this locality appear to be those 

 usually found in districts where common rights 

 exist or have existed. 



A race of small holders, emanating from original 



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