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land intended to be subdivided into Small 

 Holdings would be less per acre than the rent 

 which would be chargeable by a County 

 Council when fixed for separate allotments; 

 an association, too, would prove beneficial 

 to the small holders, enabling them to organise 

 for the purchase of stock foods, manures, 

 seeds, and other requisites, and for the sale 

 of their produce. 



This movement has already borne good 

 fruit, inasmuch as 4000 acres of land were 

 let by English County Councils to thirty 

 Co-operative Associations during the first 

 three years in which the Small Holdings Act 

 was in operation. Thus, in Berkshire, the 

 North Berks Small Holdings and Allotments 

 Society pays £391 for 465 acres of land; 

 the Waylands Society in Norfolk pays £300 

 for 285 acres. This land, which comprised a 

 farm at Watton, and which is leased by the 

 County Council for fourteen years, has been 

 sublet to the Waylands Society. The farm 

 is now divided into eight holdings, and is 

 worked upon the four-course system, five 

 occupiers earning their entire livelihood upon 

 the land. The Mere Society in Wiltshire 

 pays £380 for 452 acres of land. This farm, 

 which belongs to the Duchy of Cornwall, 



