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Conditions of Success. 



I ascribe their degree of success to the facts : 



1. That they are situated on good roads within 

 reasonable distance of several large markets. 



2. That the majority of them already possessed 

 as hawkers a private market for their goods on 

 coming into their holdings. They were secure 

 as regards the disposal of their produce, and were 

 able to increase their business by degrees. 



General Conclusions. 



1. If the small holder is to find the purchase- 

 money for his land, as well as make a living out of 

 it, he must (unless working on a scale requiring 

 capital, or as a market-gardener under exceptional 

 conditions) have some other source of income con- 

 nected with, or as an adjunct to, his work on the 

 land ; and the possibilities of this should be con- 

 sidered in endeavouring to establish small holdings. 



2. That a system of co-operation would probably 

 make the difference between a qualified and a great 

 success. If the disposal of their produce was 

 carried out on an organized system, they would 

 secure better prices by not, as it were, cutting one 

 another's throats, and would not lose time by each 

 spending whole days twice a week in carting their 

 separate goods to distant markets. 



The undertaking is undoubtedly a considerable 

 success. The farm which originally found employ- 

 ment for three men and one boy, and with the 



