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fore be safely multiplied. Everyone has heard of the 

 cottager, in daily view of browsing cows, who would 

 gladly buy milk, but can get none because it all goes 

 to the towns. 



Another type of small holding which has already 

 been worked with success, where the occupier has not 

 foolishly copied the methods of large farmers, is the 

 farm of thirty-five to fifty acres. Such a farm re- 

 quires varied knowledge of young stock, fruit, vege- 

 tables, pigs and poultry, but it is a type well worth 

 encouraging where the necessary knowledge exists. 

 The Committee expressed the opinion that pigs and 

 poultry keeping should be a part of all small holders' 

 farming, but they could not advise anyone to try 

 poultry-farming by itself. 



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The remarks of the Committee on the controversy 

 Ownership versus Tenancy are very interesting, » but 

 the general conclusions, which are strongly in favour 

 of tenancy, were naturally reached with a view to 

 establishing the smaller kind of holdings in colonies. 

 The chief points made by the Committee are that under 

 ownership effective supervision of small holdings is 

 impossible ; that tenancy permits of greater mobility ; 

 that tenancy does not absorb capital and therefore 

 leaves capital free for the proper equipment of the 

 holding ; that since money must generally be bor- 

 rowed for purchase there is no such hard-and-fast 

 1 Part I, paras, 37-48. 



