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chalk, shallow at the top of the hill. The plots are 

 staked out and are all used for growing ordinary- 

 farm crops, with the exception of two holdings 

 which are worked as market-gardens. There is a 

 difficulty in obtaining water for the latter purpose, 

 as there is none on the spot. 



Of the present tenants, the largest, holding 

 31 acres, is a dairyman, and has other land close to. 

 He uses his land entirely as an adjunct to his dairy 

 farm, and grows corn and roots. 



A coal merchant, holding 5 acres, grows corn and 

 fodder for his horses. Three milk-sellers, with 



2 or 3 acres each, cultivate them for corn and roots. 

 Of the two market - gardening plots, one, of 



5 acres, is worked by a job-gardener, who sells his 

 produce to Winchester shops. He employs one 

 man regularly on his holding, and works himself 

 at night. 



Another man holds 3 acres, on which he grows 

 vegetables for Winchester shops. He also has 



3 acres of allotment land, for which he pays 4 an 

 acre. He keeps a lot of pigs to supply manure, 

 and also buys much town manure. He was of 

 opinion that in spite of the land being very poor 

 it could be made to pay by cultivation and manure, 

 and that there was an unsupplied demand for 

 market-garden stuff in Winchester, so that if land 

 could be got hold of by small men who under- 

 stood cultivation, it would be of great benefit to 

 many people. 



On the face of it the undertaking did not seem 



