414 PRESENT-DAY EXPERIMENTS 



In the other case that of the Salvation Army's 

 scheme at Boxted in Essex an estate has been 

 bought which is being carved up on very definite 

 and arbitrary lines, and without any thought of 

 meeting local requirements or of cultivation on 

 local lines. The idea is rather to induce in a 

 purely agricultural district a definite system of 

 market-gardening cultivation on a co-operative basis 

 which will enable a man to get his entire living off 

 a holding of 5 acres. The estate has been duly 

 chosen with the view of keeping down initial 

 capital expenditure ; but every holding is being 

 fully equipped from the start not only with housing 

 accommodation, but with all materials necessary for 

 a man to begin receiving an immediate return. 

 The small holders in this case are to become 

 virtual owners at the end of thirty -three years. 



I intend to devote this last chapter of the book 

 to an account of these two schemes, neither of 

 which are yet sufficiently advanced for results to 

 be judged. I consider them, however, singularly 

 fitting subjects to leave for the last consideration 

 of those students of the question who, like myself, 

 are still wondering with open minds what the right 

 lines for future endeavours will prove to be. 



SMALL HOLDINGS ON CROWN LANDS. 



Amongst suggestions for the further establish- 

 ment of small holdings is one for utilizing the Crown 

 lands in this way in those districts where they are 

 found to be suitable for the purpose, 



