CHAPTER X 

 PRESENT-DAY EXPERIMENTS 



Two experiments have recently been started which 

 are likely to afford valuable experience in the course 

 of the next two or three years as to the possibilities 

 of establishing more men on the land. While 

 they both aim at the settlement of country men, 

 or men who have at some time or other been con- 

 nected with agriculture or gardening, the methods 

 adopted in each case are very dissimilar. They 

 afford interesting examples of the two ways which 

 are open to those who wish to supply the bonafide 

 agriculturist with land on economic lines. 



In the one case viz., that of the Crown lands 

 scheme at Burwell in Cambridgeshire local men 

 are being supplied with land near their own homes, 

 to be farmed in the ordinary manner of the district 

 already known to them, the acreage given to each 

 being determined by their individual requirements. 

 Existing buildings are being adapted for their use, 

 and only so much capital outlay is being expended 

 as is absolutely necessary for adaptation to the new 

 conditions. The land is leased from the Crown, and 

 the small holders are all subtenants on a yearly lease, 



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