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Buildings, etc. 



There is one farm-house on the land which is let 

 separately to one of the tenants. The buildings 

 attached to the latter are divided amongst the 

 tenants, and the rick-yard and barns are used in 

 common amongst the men holding arable land. 



One of the men, a coal merchant and carrier, 

 who had started as an agricultural labourer, and 

 now holds 10 acres of grass and 17 acres of plough 

 land, has put up a useful wooden shed for the sum 

 of 20. It is large enough to tie up three horses 

 or cows, and has a sheep-pen at the back. 



Considering the undertaking as a whole, the 

 following points strike one as conducive to the 

 success which is very apparent : 



1. The convenient situation of the farm close to 

 the village. 



2. The natural water-supply to the grass fields. 



3. The little road-making necessary owing to the 

 land being crossed by two roads. 



The last two circumstances enabled the land to 

 be let at a reasonable rent, owing to the absence of 

 much initial capital expenditure. 



4. The local requirements seem to find employ- 

 ment for an unusually large number of men of the 

 haulier description. To this class of man a small 

 holding is of particular advantage, as it not only 

 supplies him with the maintenance of his horses, 

 but he is enabled by means of these horses, con- 

 nected with his trade, to cultivate his own holding 



