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to be at liberty to retake immediate possession, without 

 any payment of compensation.* 



Mr. Diggle, who is steward and surveyor to the 

 Norfolk Association, as well as to that in South 

 Lincolnshire, says of Whissonsett, in a pamphlet he 

 has issued on * The Creation of Small Holdings in 

 Lincolnshire and Norfolk,' that ' practically the whole 

 of the small village has an occupation interest in the 

 farm, the tenants including the labourer who worked 

 for the retiring farmer, the village shopkeeper, carpenter, 

 and innkeeper, the working-farmer's son living at home, 

 the assistant overseer and shoemaker, and the son of 

 the parish churchwarden. Farm foremen, or working 

 farm bailiffs, who, after some years of service, and 

 having probably saved 50 to 100, desire to go into 

 business on their own account, make excellent tenants 

 of the larger holdings, and are, indeed, a very deserving 

 class.' Mr. Diggle further says, in his pamphlet : 



The existence of the following conditions has largely contributed 

 to success: (i) The tenants are men who understand the cultiva- 

 tion of the soil, and have not been failures either in agriculture or 

 in other walks of life. (2) The majority of the Lincolnshire tenants 

 hired an acre first, and made that a success before taking a larger 

 quantity. (3) The land is of good average quality, adapted for 

 small holdings, and, as to four-fifths of it, within a reasonable 

 distance. (4) The occupiers can grow what cropping they like in 

 reason, have fixity of tenure subject to good management and 

 can use the whole of their capital to farm with. (5) The rents are 

 reasonable and appreciably lower than the rents paid by tenants of 

 small holdings hired in the open market. 



In comparing the respective conditions of the two 

 sets of holdings, it may be argued that, although the 

 South Lincolnshire tenants whose land has been 

 leased by their association pay lower rents than are 

 charged to the Norfolk tenants whose association 

 bought the land they hold there is no guarantee in 



*,See Appendix. 



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