312 STOCK-RAISING IN MONMOUTHSHIRE 



contain a large proportion of genuine small holders, 

 who by hard work and extreme thrift make up for poor 

 farming and an indifferent exploitation of the land. 

 We had been seeing men above the average, but on 

 the whole Monmouthshire farming seemed of the 

 rather easy, unprogressive type that is possible on 

 grassland with the genial rainfall and kindly climate 

 of the west. 



