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not general dealers, the most successful appeared 

 to be a market-gardener, who held 17 acres, and 

 has since bought up two of the other holdings. 

 He had been a private gardener on a large place, 

 and evidently knew his business well. He had 

 some of the best land with a south aspect, and with 

 the help of one other man had erected a large 

 number of rough glass-houses, as well as a small 

 wooden dwelling-house. He had a shop in Dor- 

 chester, kept by his wife and daughter, which he 

 supplied with vegetables and flowers. He had also 

 some heifers running out on a small piece of 

 pasture, and kept pigs and poultry, besides two 

 horses and a pony, which he used for pumping 

 water and carting his produce to Dorchester. He 

 provides a large part of another holder's income by 

 employing him to haul coal and stable manure from 

 Dorchester. He found the competition of the 

 Channel Islands severe, as they could get earlier on 

 the market, but he seemed to be making a good 

 thing out of tomatoes. He appeared to be the one 

 obviously flourishing man on the place, and would 

 probably do well anywhere ; I might add that he 

 was the only man I could find who depended 

 entirely on his holding for a living, and it must 

 be remembered that he ran a shop in connection 

 with it. # 



Another man living in the village held about 

 18 acres, and had some exceedingly fine-looking 



* I am informed that this man has now sold his land and 

 gone. 



