Small Holdings and Agriculture 



the question of providing motor transport from 

 the outset. Of course this could only be done 

 for groups of small holders — the colony system 

 again. 



But there is no doubt that in many cases it 

 would be economically sound to settle a colony, 

 say seven miles from the market or station, if 

 by so doing suitable land could be obtained at 

 a greatly reduced price ; and to devote public 

 money to starting a motor service. The small 

 holders would naturally pay a fair rate for 

 transport, and the venture should cost the 

 County Council nothing — should, in fact, even 

 prove remunerative ; but for some reason there 

 seems to be a strong feeling against putting a 

 comparatively small sum of public money to 

 such a use — even though it were the means of 

 saving thousands of pounds of purchase money. 



Again, to help this rural development as 

 directly as possible, every County Council 

 should have its agricultural organiser or adviser 

 — corresponding to the "Agronomes" who play 

 so important a part in the rural development in 

 Belgium. They and their staffs would get into 

 close touch with the small holders, visiting 

 them on their holdings, telling them what seeds 

 to buy, the names of the best firms, the best 

 variety of manures, the best way of marketing 

 their produce. 



I hold that demonstration farms could be 



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