INDEX 



Agrarian- question, complexity 



of the, 7 

 Agriculture : the essentials for 

 successful, 1 ; the maiu bul- 

 wark of national efficiency, 3; 

 our national advantages, 4 ; 

 present condition of, 9 et 

 seq., 13, 14 ; faulty organiza- 

 tion of, 19 ; a forecast of the 

 future of, 130 et seq. ; offers 

 no opportunity for advance- 

 ment, 135 

 Agricultural labourers, effect 

 of village farms on the 

 wages of, 98 ; why they 

 leave the land, 115, 

 134 



Organization Society, 58 ; 



its results, 59, 85 

 research and technical in- 

 struction needed, 140 

 schools in foreign coun- 

 tries, 49 



Hanks, Credit, 51, 53 (and 

 note) 



Bedford, Duke of, creates vil- 

 lage farm at Maulden, 87 

 et seq. 



Cambridgeshire, small holdings 



in, 40 

 Catshill (village farm), 73 et 



Ki'q. ; effect of insistence on 



a deposit, 113 



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Children in villages to be 

 taught to think of agri- 

 cultural matters, 144 



Collings, Mr, Jesse, on the 

 decrease of farm workers, 

 11 ; on State-aided purchase, 

 31 



Co - operation among small 

 farmers in foreiirn countries, 

 50, 1 24 ; in this country, 

 58, 59, 60, 124 



Cottages, labourers', 17, 18 



Credit banks, 51, 53 



Denmark, peasant " proprie- 

 tors," in, 40 



Depopulation of rural villages, 

 115 



Deposit in land purclia?e cases, 

 34 ; in the Small Holdings 

 Act (1892), 55 ; effect of 

 insisting on, 113 



Depot system, 101, 122 



Dual ownersliip system, 29, 

 132 



Education ami knowledge 

 essential to success in small 

 holdings, 142 



Enclosure Acts of the eight- 

 eenth and nineteenth cen- 

 turies, effects of tlie, 137 



Estates, "breaking up" of 

 large, 23 ; its effects on 

 tenant farmers, 24 et seq. 



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