150 



INDEX 



Eve, Mr. Trustram, on State- 

 aided purchase, 31 ; illustra- 

 tiou of his scheme, 32 et 

 seq. ; Mauhlen village farm, 

 88 ; his calculation for re- 

 payment of loans to the 

 State, 119 



" Evesham Custom," the, 28, 

 132 



Fairbj' Farm Estate, 99 et seq. ; 

 the central depot and its 

 functions, 101 ; success of 

 the depot system, 122 



Farms, village, 73 et serj. ; 

 Catshill, ibid. ; Winterslow, 

 79; Maulden, 87; Fairby 

 Farm Estate, 99 et seq. ; vil- 

 lage farms generally, 110 et 

 seq. 



Farmers, change in their posi- 

 tion, 14; effect of "break- 

 ing up " of estates on, 23 ; 

 compensation to outgoing, 

 28 ; their position on land- 

 lords' selling, 37 ; small- 

 holders, 38 et seq. 



Farming, small (fruit, vege- 

 tables, etc.), 39 et seq. 



Fels, ^Ir., his experiments in 

 Essex, 63 et seq. 



Food, the supply of, a world 

 problem, 3 



Food-stuffs, imports of, 9 



France, " peasant proprietors " 

 in, U 



Germany, " peasant proprie- 

 tors ""in, 48 



Harvest, the effect of good or 

 bad on prices, 13 



Holden, Sir Edward, on State- 

 aided purchase, 31 



Holland and Belgium, ''peas- 

 ant proprietors " in, 46 



Industrj', the essentials for 

 successful, 1 



Intermediate classes in rural 

 life, disappearance of, 138 



Irish custom of dual owner- 

 ship, 29 



Jebb, Miss, on "The Small 

 Holdings of England," 142 



Labourers, agricultural, de- 

 crease in number of, 11, 12 

 (and note) ; bad housing of, 

 17 ; their loss of interest in 

 the land, 137 ; minimum 

 wage question, 139 



Land, diminishing arable culti- 

 vation of, 7, 8 ; " site value " 

 of, 19, 20 ; dual ownership, 



29, 80 ; nationalization of, 

 30 ; quality of, for village 

 farms, 120 



Landlord and tenant system, 

 past and present, 130 



Landowners, income from 

 ownership, 10 (and note) ; 

 present position of, 20, 21 ; 

 effect of the late depression 

 on, 21, 22 ; effect of recent 

 legislation, 22 ; relation- 

 ship of landlord and tenant, 

 25 



" Landowners' Court, Limited," 

 81 e^ seq. 



Land purchase in Ireland, 29, 



30, 35 (note) 



Loans, Mr. Eve's calculation 

 for repayment of, 119 ; 

 limitations of, to sitting 

 tenants, 14G 



Maulden (village farm), 87 et 



seq. 

 Middleman, value of the, 



143 



