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different trades, there were not many who had not 

 had some connection with work on the land. 



Present Conditions of Holdings. 



Of the original purchasers, three have died, and 

 their holdings have been purchased at enhanced 

 prices by their prospering neighbours. 



Five holdings are used as adjuncts to their 

 owners' trades, and are not lived on by them. Of 

 these, one is used as a bee-farm by a shopkeeper 

 in Dorchester. On another the owner, originally 

 a carpenter, and now a coal merchant and haulier, 

 grows fodder for his horses ; three general dealers 

 in Abbotsbury use 30 acres on which to run young 

 cattle and grow hay. 



Those actually living on their holdings are, with 

 some exceptions, general dealers and hawkers ; they 

 each have a horse and cart, and supplement their 

 own vegetables, butter, fowl and eggs by buying 

 in the markets and hawking their goods to private 

 customers. Where the holdings are of 5 or 6 acres 

 they grow chiefly vegetables and keep for the 

 horse, and go in largely for poultry. 



On the larger holdings of 20 or 30 acres the 

 general rule is to find two-thirds laid down to 

 pasture, the remaining third producing roots and 

 corn, which is mostly consumed on the land by the 

 stock. 



