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THE RURAL PROBLEM 



Wiltshire. 



On an accompanying map the rents in Wiltshire were shown as 

 from 5s. per acre for hill land to 35s. per acre for bottom pastures. 

 The average per acre in one part of the county was shown as 25s., 

 in another as 20s. 



Hampshire. 



Rents from 21s. to 5s., tithe free. Sporting rights generally 

 reserved. Mr. Butler, who had managed land In Wiltshire and 

 Hampshire since 1882 — i.e., all his working life — put rent of 

 ordinary land in good heart in Hampshire at about 15s. an acre. 



Sussex. 



Rents, 20s. to 30s. per acre. 



Rye Division, 12s. 6d. to 15s. 



Map shows rent of marshland in East Sussex to go up to 40s., 

 hill farms from 10s. downwards. According to the map, the 

 average would seem to be 20s. to 30s. 



