visited on Lord Tollemache's Estate in 1884 and described under 

 the name of "Three Acres and a cow." 



He found 300 labourers earning wages of 12 shillings a week 

 as cowmen, each occupying a house with 3 acres (1.2 hectares) 

 of grass land for which they paid a rent of 6 per year. On each 

 holding was a cow and often a yearling heifer, with pigs and 

 poultry, and with the hay stack the capital was not less than 30. 

 The system attached the people to their homes, giving them the 

 opportunity to save, besides affording the children plenty of milk and 

 better food than they would have got by their father's wages alone. 



The author recently revisited the Tollemache Estate Small Hold- 

 ings and found them still flourishing. 



Somersetshire. Is a county where a great area of land has been 

 applied for under the Small Holdings Act 1907 not less than 

 20 ooo acres (8093 hectares). The district near Axbridge is well 

 known for early strawberries of which there are many plantations. 



The advantage this district has is the warm shelter of the 

 Mendip slopes combined with suitable soil. One case was noticed 

 by Mr. Impey where a man was paying 5 rent for x /4 of an acre 

 (1012 square metres) from which he had in the preceding year 

 sold 58 work of strawberries. 



In this neighbourhood Cheddar cheese is made and there are 

 numerous cases of successful Small Holdings on which good cheese 

 was made. One man on 10 acres (4.04 hectares) kept 4 cows and 

 was satisfied with the returns. 



Small farming a lost art. Improved methods of working, and 

 especially by means of cooperative action will assuredly be gra- 

 dually developed. In many parts of the United Kingdom the 

 business of successfully working a Small Holding has been forgotten. 



R. F. The Agricultural Population of Great Britain. [Fifty 

 years of social progress]. (Contemporary Review, 529, 17-32. 

 London, Jan. 1910). 



The Local Government Board have recently issued, under the 

 title " Public Health and Social Conditions, " a Report, containing 

 valuable statistical memoranda, tables, and graphic charts. 



A fact of primary importance brought out in the Report is the 

 tendency of population to aggregate in urban centres. The ten- 

 dency is of long standing in Great Britain. A similar tendency, 



