INDEX 



151 



Minimum wage for labourers, 

 uo solution of the problem, 

 139 



Mortgage, theory of the redu- 

 cible, 117, 118, 119 (uote) 



" Occupying ownership,'' 96 ; 

 the only alternative to land- 

 lord and tenant system, 

 131 



Olivier, Sir Sydney, on land 

 tenure in the Channel 

 Islands, 132 



Pasture, introduction ot com- 

 mon (at Maulden), 117 



Peasant farmers, 38 et seq., 02, 

 73 et seq. ; " peasant pro- 

 prietors " in France, 44, 

 in Denmark, 46, in Holland 

 and Belgium, 47, in Ger- 

 many, Austria, etc., 48 ; 

 examples at home : Catshill, 

 73, Winterslow, 79, Maul- 

 den, 87 



Plunkett, Sir Horace, his co- 

 operative organization, 30 ; 

 on Ilaffeisen Banks, 51 



Poore, Major, forms ''Land- 

 owners' Court, Limited," 79 

 d seq. 



Population, importance of a 

 healthy rural, 4 ; causes of 

 the decline in, 115 



B^othero, Mr. Rowland, his- 

 tory of English agricul- 

 ture, 14 ; on tlie disappear- 

 ance of the intermediate 

 classes, 138 ; on the educa- 

 tion of village children in 

 agriculture, 144 



Raffeisen Credit Banks, 61, 53 

 (and note), 59 



Reducible mortgages, 117, 118, 



119 

 Rural population, importance 

 of a healthy, 4 



housing, 86 



Russia, ''peasant proprietors" 



in, 48 



Schools for agricultural train- 

 ing, 49 



"Site value " of land, 19, 20 



Small farming (fruit, vege- 

 tables, etc.), 39 on the 

 Continent, 44 et seq. 



Small Holdings Act of 1802, 

 54 ; its failure, 55, 60 ; con- 

 solidated with the Act of 

 1907, ibid. ; its merits and 

 demerits, 57 ; two important 

 defects, 61 ; amount of land 

 purchased under, 147 



" Small owners" versus "small 

 holders," 96 



" Small Owners, Limited," 

 99 (and note) 



State-aided purchase in Ire- 

 land, 30 ; proposals for Eng- 

 land and AVales, 31 



State ownership of land, SO 



Struti, Mr. Edward, results of 

 his farming operations (1894- 

 1911), 16, 17 



Technical knowledge essential 

 for the success of small 

 ownerships, 140 



Tenant farmers. See Farmers 



Tenants, compensation to out- 

 going, 28 



Teimre, security of, 28; Irish 

 system of, 29 



Urban workers desire to return 

 to the land, 136 



