178 PROBLEMS OF VILLAGE LIFE 



No. 2 (inferior land). Fourteen bushels 

 at 2/- per bushel, l 8s. 



s. d. 



Rent 32 



Manure . . . . ..50 



Seed 30 



Digging land and potatoes . . 50 



16 2 



Profit, 11/10= 3d. a week! 



The general atmosphere of hostility in which 

 the village applicant for a small holding 

 frequently finds himself is the outcome of 

 several deeply rooted prejudices. The land- 

 lord is, as a rule, far less opposed to the sub- 

 division of his land than the land agent or the 

 farmer. Nevertheless, as an ardent supporter 

 of the Conservative Party, he naturally tends 

 to regard Liberal measures with suspicion 

 and dislike, and in many cases he is sincerely 

 convinced that sooner or later his land will be 

 subjected to heavy and special forms of taxa- 

 tion or even taken from him by some obscure 

 processes of what he vaguely calls Radico- 

 Socialism. Further, the sporting squire 

 realizes that extensive game preservation 

 and intensive farming are incompatible, and 

 that in general any far-reaching extension of 



