298 TYPICAL CASES 



head of stock kept. On one holding of 20 acres, 

 typical of many others, there were fourteen head 

 of cattle (of which seven were milking-cows, four 

 heifers, and three yearlings), one horse, and four 

 brood sows. The young pigs were sold or fattened 

 according to current prices of meal or stock. Four 

 acres were in roots and oats, and the whole of the 

 rest of the land had been mown for hay. The 

 tenant, who paid 2 an acre rent, had started life 

 working for lis. a week, and had never received 

 more than 16s. up to the time he had taken 

 this holding. He had, however, been able to pay 

 70 down for the valuation of the stock on the 

 premises when starting. 



Another man, now farming 50 acres, had begun 

 at Is. 6d. a day, working with his father in the 

 woods. He saved up enough to buy a calf when a 

 boy, which he turned out on the Forest, and gradu- 

 ally increased his stock. Then he took a small 

 place with lj acres, and from there went on to 

 one of 15 acres, when he gave up working for 

 wages. After some years he was able to take his 

 present farm, which he worked with two of his 

 sons. He had brought up a family of thirteen 

 children, and had set up one son as a market- 

 gardener and another as a farmer. He was of 

 opinion that anyone could save on agricultural 

 wages if they had sufficient inducement. 



