416 PRESENT-DAY EXPERIMENTS 



Commissioner of Woods and Forests, and the land 

 used for agricultural purposes will be administered 

 by the Board of Agriculture. 



THE BURWELL SMALL HOLDINGS. 



Meanwhile, an experiment is being conducted 

 through the private enterprise of a Member of 

 Parliament on some Crown land in Cambridgeshire. 

 Mr. C. D. Rose, M.P. for East Cambridgeshire, 

 has recently taken, on a thirty-one years' lease, 

 916 acres off the Crown at the village of Burwell, 

 between Newmarket and Cambridge. This land is 

 being divided up and adapted for small holdings 

 entirely at the risk of the Crown tenant, who 

 stands in the position of landlord to the small 

 holders. 



The original tenant retired two years ago, and 

 since that time the farm had been in the hands of 

 the Crown agents, and farmed by their bailiff. 



The land at some former time had evidently been 

 held in several separate farms, and lies in four main 

 blocks, each containing either a farm-house and 

 buildings or cottages and buildings. For this reason 

 it has been possible to create a certain number of 

 self-contained holdings without doing more in the 

 building line than adapting existing accommodation. 

 The Commissioners have agreed to spend not less 

 than 1,500 in alterations and additions, 4 per cent, 

 interest being charged to Mr. Rose. The estate is 

 bordered by one and a half miles of main road, and 



