SMALL HOLDINGS. 97 



are too small rather than too large now. 

 Both for grain growing and live-stock rear- 

 ing, large areas can be more profitably 

 administered than small areas. 



2. Under no system of small ownership in 

 England that could be devised would the 

 nation and the cultivator be as well served 

 as they are under existing " landlordism," 

 in those cases where the landlord is fair, 

 sympathetic, skilful, and not of straitened 

 means. 



2. Since there is no legislative precaution 

 by which those qualities can be assured in 

 a landlord, and various developments tend 

 more and more to lessen his number, the 

 growth of the next best system of land- 

 holding, that of small working farmers, may 

 well be encouraged, but with caution and 

 on business lines, keeping as far as possible 

 free from motives of landlord-hating and 

 of vote buying. 



4. Legislative encouragement should not 

 be so lavish as to encourage everybody and 

 anybody to make an experiment in farming ; 

 and help given should be as far as possible 



