174 PROBLEMS OF VILLAGE LIFE 



busy times, especially at the fruit-picking and 

 bloom-gathering seasons. 



" The tenant keeps pigs ; but, having no 

 grass land, a cow is not kept. If a paddock 

 were available, it would be very convenient 

 for the horse in summer, for a cow, and for the 

 poultry, which would pick up more insect 

 food and be healthier than in the confined 

 poultry-run. In the circumstances, half an 

 acre of arable land is reserved for clover, cut 

 green for horse food in the summer and partly 

 made into hay for winter supply. The oats 

 are grown for horse corn, while the oat straw 

 is cut into chaff. The oats not required are 

 sold. The wheat is sold, the straw being 

 carefully husbanded and used for bedding the 

 horse and pigs and for covering potatoes kept 

 through the winter. 



" Sufficient yard manure is made for the 

 arable land. For special vegetable crops, 

 artificial manure is used in addition to the 

 yard manure. 



" The tenant sells fat pigs but retains 

 sufficient for home consumption. Eggs are 

 also sold. Formerly home-grown wheat was 

 kept for domestic use, but the practice of 

 grinding wheat at the village mill has ceased. 

 Hence, the flour for home-baked bread is 

 bought. Substituting for the flour home- 



