THE STATE SMALL-HOLDINGS 75 



market, which it proposed to use for the purposes of 

 small-holdings. 



The inference is obvious and need not be em- 

 phasised. Still, such a state of feeling is as un- 

 fortunate as it is unnecessary, seeing that in the wide 

 land of Britain there is room for every class of 

 agriculturist. No one in his senses would urge that 

 all England, or even half of it, should be cut up into 

 small tenancies or ownerships. Yet that is what the 

 large farmer too often seems to fear. 



