SMALL FARMS AND SMALL HOLDINGS 69 



The small farmer is not uncommon in the district, but 

 is neither farming the land so well nor making as 

 much profit out of it as his larger neighbours, while the 

 strong heavy working soils are by no means suited to 

 the typical small holder of five to ten acres. 



Essex has many varied forms of agriculture to 

 show, as for example the intensive dairying that 

 prevails in the south-east ; but wherever we went we 

 saw no longer the derelict Essex which was once the 

 type example of ruined English agriculture ; instead, 

 the countryside seemed to smile with a quiet unexcited 

 prosperity it was providing bread and butter, at all 

 events, for its occupiers. 



