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supplies from all the various districts, and town 

 dealers can there buy together all the different kinds 

 of produce to suit their requirements. For this 

 reason they cannot be persuaded to deal direct with 

 certain growers for certain things on any appreci- 

 able scale. 



PARISH COUNCIL HOLDINGS AT HAMPTON. 



Hampton is a small hamlet one and a half miles 

 south of Evesham. The Parish Council have here 

 96 acres let out in acre lots to over sixty tenants. 

 The land was originally a charity farm, and had 

 never been profitable as farm land : 26 acres of it 

 had never been touched for years. For this the 

 Parish Council paid 17s. 6d. an acre, and it is now 

 the best land it has, the tenants frequently making 

 an unusually high price for asparagus on it, for 

 which crop it appears especially suitable. 



The Council originally paid 125 for the whole 

 farm, on which there was no tithe. As a farm it 

 had let at 120. They let out the lots at prices 

 varying from l to 3 an acre. A large amount 

 of the surplus thus obtained had to be spent in 

 making roads. Arrangements for a twenty-one 

 years' lease have now been completed at 135 a 

 year. The Council acted with extreme forethought 

 in annexing this farm in 1895 at a time when the 

 present great demand for land so close to the town 

 had not reached its height, as will be seen by the 

 fact that tenants of adjoining plots are paying 5 

 and 6 an acre, besides rates and taxes. The Parish 



