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4. There are no large manufacturing towns or 

 any centres supplying good markets. 



5. Some of them (Whissonsett) are far from a 

 market or railway-station. 



In fact, there seem to be none of the conditions 

 generally looked upon as necessary factors to 

 success. 



It will therefore be interesting to note how this 

 movement spreads locally, and to what degree it 

 will succeed in the future. It has now been going 

 on for seven years, and so far has attained that 

 amount of success which is indicated by there being 

 no apparent failures. There are always numerous 

 applicants for land. They pay their rent regularly, 

 and, taken as a whole, keep the land in good 

 condition. They farm in the ordinary way, growing 

 the usual farm crops. 



It must, however, be remembered that, with the 

 exception of a few men at Watton and one at 

 Swaff ham holding larger areas, all the holdings are 

 in the nature of allotments and adjuncts ; that the 

 land is conveniently situated in each case for being 

 held as an adjunct, and that, though not of the 

 most productive type, it is easily worked land. 



SMALL HOLDINGS AT WING, BUCKS. 



Wing is a village of 1,740 inhabitants, three 

 miles from Leigh+on Buzzard, in mid Buckingham- 

 shire. The whole of the glebe farm, of 208 acres, 

 is let in holdings, varying from 1 to 26 acres, to 



