THE RURAL PROBLEM 



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Collages, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 28, 

 24, 86, 37, 88, 89, 40, 41, 42, 

 43 

 Dearth of, 20, 21, 22, 28 

 Government grant in aid of 

 building, arguments for and 

 against, 40, 41,42 

 Example of Ireland, 40, 41 

 Stimulus to local authori- 

 ties, 42, 43 

 Insanitary condition of, 21, 22, 



28 

 Overcrowding of, 19 

 Tied, 12 

 too small, 21 

 Cottage-build inn. Cost of, 38, 39 

 Loans to R.D.C.'s, 37 

 not a commercial undertak- 

 ing, 24, 38, 39 

 Price of land unimportant 



factor in, 38 

 Cost of labour in, 38 

 Minimum wage a stimulus to, 



41 

 Housing of Labouring Classes 



Act, 1890, 36 



Housing and Town-Planning 



Act, 1909, 36 



County Councils, Administration 



of Minimum Wage Act by, 30, 31 



County Councils'' Association, 77, 



110 

 Courie, 99 

 Credit Banks, 83, 84, 85, 86 



liability of members, 83 

 Cromarlie, Countess of, 99 

 Crowland, 19 

 Cumberland, 9, 26, 28 

 Cunningham, \Y., 91 



Dairies. See Co-operative Dairies 

 Dairy farming. Extension of, 4 

 Davics, Emil, 91 

 Davies, Miss Maud, 7, 9, 13, 15 

 Dearth of bedrooms, 19, 21 



of cottages, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 38 

 Death Duties on land, 46, 51 

 Decline of agriculture, 1, 2 



of sentimental value of land, 

 45, 46, 51 

 Decrease in number of agricul- 

 tural labourers, 2, 3, 4 



in value of money, 16, 17 



Deductions from wages, 10 

 Development Commissioners, Grant 

 for promoting agricultural 

 co-operation by, 76 

 Grant to A.O.S., 76, 84 

 Devon, 53 



Displacement of labour by laying 

 down land to grass, 4, 45 

 by machinery, 4 

 Doncaster, 93 



Dorsetshire, 7, 9, 10, 17, 26, 32 

 Dover, 94 

 Driffield, 93 

 Drudgery of agricultural labourers, 



4 

 Dundee, 93 

 Durham, 33, 111 



East Anglian Farmers, Ltd., 90 



Eastern Counties Farmers'' Asso- 

 ciation, 79, 80, 83 



Education, Cost of, in U.S.A., 71 

 Rural, 70, 71, 72 

 at Lindsey, 71 

 effect on Farmers, 70, 71 

 Unsuitability or, 70 

 Suggested reforms in, 71, 72 



Edwards, George, 8 



Eight hours' day, 10 



Enclosure of Commons, 52, 53 



Essex, 53, 108 



Familu earnings of labourers, 11, 



12, 13 

 Farm schools, 71, 72 

 Farmers, Effect of co-operation on, 

 67 

 of education on, 70, 71 

 of land tenure on, 67, 68 

 of local taxation on, 67 

 of minimum wage on, 32, 33, 



34, 66 

 of railway rates on, 92, 93 

 of organisation of marketing 



on, 67 

 of organisation of transit on, 

 67 

 Lack of education among, 70, 71 

 Farming, Uneconomical, t.~> 

 Farms, Value of tenant, Appendix 



H 

 Fels, Joseph, 64, 65 



