COST OF CREATING HOLDINGS 73 



Cost of Creating Holdings. 



An experiment was tried on one estate of putting 

 up cottages and letting 4 or 5 acres of land with 

 each. But it has been found that this amount of 

 land is more than a man, without capital to tide 

 him over, can manage, if he has to start with plant- 

 ing it and getting it into garden cultivation. In 

 each case the tenant had to sublet half the land or 

 the cottage. 



On the same estate cottages have been put up 

 at 400 the pair and let at 9 9s. each. It is 

 estimated that the increased rent paid for the land 

 attached to them has made the building a profitable 

 investment where it would not have been if the 

 rent of the cottages alone is calculated. 



The chief expense connected with the cutting 

 up of the land is represented by the necessity of 

 making roads to make the various lots accessible. 



Where the ground is heavy clay the roads are 

 made by burning the clay, which costs 7^d. per 

 39 yards. (Coal, labour and incidentals come approxi- 

 mately to 2s. 6d. per cubic yard ; 1 cubic yard will 

 cover a road 12 feet wide, 9 inches thick, per yard 

 forward. It is not advisable to put a less thickness 

 than 9 inches, as it crushes down to about half 

 when the traffic has been on for a time.) 



The following are statistics of actual cases where 

 farms, or parts of farms, have been converted into 

 small holdings of recent years, kindly furnished me 

 by a local man : 



