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5. Rows of young apple-trees just planted with 

 red currants between ; spring-onions between the 

 rows ; parsley and wall-flowers under the trees. 



A few grow rye-grass and clover and corn on the 

 cheaper land, using the straw for litter for the pony 

 and pigs. But where the land is dear this is not 

 worth while, and it pays them better to buy. 

 Not many keep pigs. They rely for manure on 

 artificials, chiefly guano, nitrate, leather dust (pre- 

 ferably from the chamois - leather factories), and 

 shoddy. 



Every one who earns his entire living on the 

 land keeps a pony and cart or lorry of some kind. 

 Although this must cost them 10s. a week, it 

 appears to be everybody's ambition in life to possess 

 one ; and whenever a good season has set a small 

 man up, the first thing he does is to get a new pony 

 or set of harness. It would be extremely difficult 

 here to instil any ideas of co-operation for the col- 

 lection of produce, partly because in very many 

 cases the men live some miles from their ground, 

 and the cart is useful for taking out the whole 

 family to their work, returning at night with a 

 load of produce. 



Supply of Land, Rents, Prices, etc. 



Nearly all the small men rent their holdings ; 

 the ' Evesham Custom ' makes any money laid out 

 secure, so that there is a preference to use available 

 money as working capital rather than invest in the 

 purchase of land. As has been before stated, the 



