262 LOCAL DEMAND 



It may be that there are men able to take and 

 stock a small farm of a large enough area to pro- 

 duce an entire living, and that this type of holding 

 is possible under the given agricultural conditions ; 

 or it may be that there are men in regular or job 

 work to whom holdings merely as adjuncts would 

 be valuable, by enabling them to fill up odd times 

 profitably, or by helping them to carry on their 

 particular occupations to better advantage. 



Or the district may not be one particularly 

 adapted to small-holding cultivation as such; but 

 there may be village tradesmen or artisans in con- 

 nection with whose trade a small holding is such 

 an advantage that they are able to pay more for 

 the holding than the land qua land is worth. In 

 this way any extra expense in adaptation is met. 

 This is often the case in purely agricultural villages, 

 in places where local industries exist, or any form 

 of work such as winter work in woods, mining, 

 quarrying, draining, or much agricultural piece- 

 work in districts of very large arable farms. 



Or it may be, again, that there is a definite type 

 of small-holding cultivation peculiar to the district, 

 which needs facilities for extension on the same 

 lines. 



II. The Type of Small Holdings required. 



The considerations under the previous heading 

 will have given some indication of the kind of 

 holding wanted by local men. 



