CHAPTER III 



THE PEASANT PROBLEM 



We have confined ourselves up to the present 

 with reviewing our subject from its widest 

 aspect — the aspect of the larger farm, the 

 generally accepted type of British agricultural 

 cultivation. But a satisfactory conclusion can 

 only be arrived at by somewhat concentrating 

 our field of argument. It has occurred to many 

 that even if our acres are insufficient to fulfil 

 the heavy demands put upon them for the 

 more general forms of food- stuffs, there must 

 be many articles which by their nature are not 

 consumed in such vast quantities, but at the 

 same time are very essential to our needs. 

 There is undoubtedly a large and increasing 

 demand for such commodities as fruit, vege- 

 tables, flowers, pig-meat, eggs, poultry and 

 dairy produce, etc., and there should be no 

 difficulty in adequately supplying this demand 



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