Small Holdings and Agriculture 



at least utilize the experience of some of the very 

 successful and intelligent holders, and have sub- 

 sidised illustrations, paying the said intelligent 

 holders so much per annum to crop their land in 

 certain specified ways and to allow parties to 

 visit their holdings. We have plenty of these 

 brilliant examples if we look for them. What 

 we want is to make the average holders realise 

 what can be done and what actually is being 

 done in their own district. I here give as an 

 example the achievement of a small holder 

 near Spalding, a tenant of 6^ acres. He sold 

 off his holding corn, potatoes, pigs and poultry, 

 as follows : 



;^444 



These sales he booked ; probably a few small 

 sales were missed. The average would not be 

 less than ;f 150 per annum. He expended dur- 

 ing the three years ;^200 upon purchased feed- 

 ing stuffs, and consumed part of his home-grown 

 corn, pigs, potatoes, etc., valued at ^35. His net 

 income averaged ^^80, the equivalent of a wage 

 of over 30/- a week. 



I can deal with the question of small hold- 

 ings only in a most cursory fashion, because 



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