40 THE PRACTICAL SIDE OF 



holding as an agricultural holding. The 

 occupier, therefore, must commit no breach 

 of his agreement which would render him 

 liable to lose possession. 



A great feature of the Small Holdings 

 legislation is the fact that County Councils are 

 permitted to encourage and to assist associa- 

 tions which are formed with the object of 

 creating, or promoting the creation of, Small 

 Holdings or Allotments. To this end the 

 Board of Agriculture has made a grant of 

 money to the Agricultural Organisation 

 Society, conditionally upon the Board being 

 entitled to nominate six members on the 

 committee of the society. County Councils, 

 too, may make such a society as that referred 

 to a medium through which they may render 

 financial assistance to local societies. Thus, 

 a co-operative society may rent land from a 

 County Council sub-divided into holdings 

 which they may let to individuals at rents 

 which are intended to cover the cost and 

 at such risk as they may foresee. Thus, the 

 association would collect the rents from the 

 tenants, as they would be responsible, and 

 pay them over to the public authority. It 

 is obvious that by the adoption of this method 

 the rent paid for a farm or a large area of 



