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one has been thrown out of employment. The 

 sixteen cottages on the estate have gradually 

 been either purchased or hired by small owners, 

 the previous occupiers finding accommodation 

 as cottages became vacant in the vicinity, but 

 there have been no wholesale evictions as 

 would have occurred under the usual con- 

 ditions. 



The whole staff of the farm was taken over 

 by the Company, and after a year's working it 

 is found that whereas there were previously 

 many vacant cottages in the district, these are 

 now all let ; and whereas there was a surplus 

 of labour, there is now a shortage. It is calcu- 

 lated that, including small owners and local 

 labourers employed, there are at least three 

 times as many men engaged in cultivation of 

 the land as were employed on the farm before 

 the village farm was installed. 



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An organization on these lines can only be 

 satisfactorily undertaken where a village farm 

 is composed of occupying owners. The admin- 

 istration could not be so eflicient or elastic 

 if the holdings were cultivated by tenants. 

 Credit to any great extent would be unsound 



