168 Rents, Wages, and Profits in Agriculture 



in agriculture have decreased more than the 

 men. 



Generally, it may be said that in countries 

 in which small holdings prevail the wife 

 and children share in the cultivation. If, 

 however, any extensive movement for bring- 

 ing people back to the land means that 

 women are again to be extensively em- 

 ployed in agriculture, so far as England 

 is concerned, in the light of history, it 

 would be a retrograde movement. 



The question of small holdings is large 

 and complex, and much has been written 

 on every part of it. The broad results of 

 this historical survey on the relations of 

 land, labour, and capital have, it is true, 

 only an indirect bearing on the general 

 question of small holdings and the still 

 wider question of rural depopulation but 

 they are worthy of consideration. The 

 recent changes in education and in the 



