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Changes in LINCOLN. The general impression is that the decline in 

 Agricultural population is continuing, but not at the same rate as up to 

 Population. 19Q1. Mr. Frankish thinks that labourers may have increased 

 since 1901. 



Major Browne does not consider that the increase in farmers 

 applies in the neighbourhood of Louth, but states that in the 

 marsh district, near towns, small freeholds may have increased 

 owing to the facility of disposing of milk and vegetables. 



YORK (EAST RIDING). The conditions appear to be un- 

 changed. 



DIVISION II. 

 (a.) Counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, J3erks and Hants. 



KENT. It is considered that the changes indicated in 1901 

 still continue, except in Sheppey. 



SURREY. The number of ki farmers and graziers " is thought 

 to be increasing. Good farms are easily let and in a few cases 

 large holdings are being split up. There is an influx of farmers 

 from Scotland, the North of England, Devon and Somerset; 

 these are attracted by the lower rents (considering the nearness 

 of London) and the greater freedom of cultivation. 



SUSSEX. The decrease in agricultural labourers is believed 

 to be still continuing, though, perhaps, not at the same rate 

 as prior to 1901. Referring to the increase in the number of 

 farmers Mr. Ingram writes : " Small holdings have increased 

 and are increasing every year, owing to properfies being split 

 up for sale and large farms being divided into smaller lots for 

 letting. A considerable number of the tenants of these hold- 

 ings may be called farmers, but a very large number of owners 

 and also some of the occupiers of such Holdings, although they 

 may describe themselves as ' farmers,' really do not attempt 

 to make a living off the land. Men from the large towns, such 

 as Brighton, Eastbourne, Hastings, &c., have come out into 

 the country .and are using the land more for residential pur- 

 poses and pleasure than for profit." Mr. H. W. Drewitt writes : 

 " The numFer of farmers attending the markets of West Sussex 

 has certainly declined, and has more than once been the sub- 

 ject of remarks to me ; probably the increase is in East Sussex, 

 which has a much larger number of small farms. It is be- 

 coming more and more the custom in West Sussex for farmers 

 to hold several fanns at the same time; in this parish thirty 

 years ago there were thirteen farmers, there are now three 

 on the same area of land. Probably the number of farmers 

 has increased slightly since 1901, as there are more farms let 

 now than there were then." 



BERKSHIRE. Mr. Lousley thinks that labour is more 

 plentiful, but Mr. Adams thinks the decline has continued. 



