THE RURAL PROBLEM 



107 



Ireland, Government housing 

 grants in, 40, 41 

 Agricultural co-operation in, 75 

 Co-operative dairies in, 82 

 Percentage of land covered with 



trees in, 105 

 Raiffeisen banks in, 85 

 Cottage-building in, 40, 41 

 Irish Agricultural Organisation 



Society, 75 

 Irredeemable Mortgage, The, 50, 



51 

 Italy, 74 



Co-operative purchase in, 79 

 Raiffeisen banks in, 85 



Japan, 74 

 Johnson, A. H., 53 

 Jutland, West, 80, 81 



Karehave School, 72 

 Kent, 53 



King's Lynn (Poor Law) Union, 

 111 



Labourer. See Agricultural 

 Labourers 



Lamb-money, 8 



Lancashire, 9 



Land, Acreage of agricultural, 1 

 put to selfish uses, 5, 38 

 Uneconomical farming of, 45 

 Taxation of, 25, 47, 109 

 Death duties on, 46, 51 

 Sentimental value of, 44, 45, 46, 



51 

 Nationalisation of, 47, 51 



Land Commissioners, 48, 49, 50 



Land stock, Guaranteed, 49 



Land tenure, 67, 68, 69 



Landlord, Effect of minimum wage 

 on, 34, :i.~> 



Lapland, 79 



Leeds, 93 



Leicester, 82, 93 



Leith, 94 



Levy, Prof. Hermann, 58 



Limpsfield, 58 



Lincolnshire, 9, 18, 32, 58, 72 

 Marquis of, 49 



Lindsey, 58, 71 

 Linton, 21 

 Little, \V. C, 18 

 Liverpool, 71, 93 



Loans to R.D.C.'s for cottage- 

 building, .'57 

 Local Government Board, 75 

 Local Taxation, 67, 108, 109, 110, 



111 



London, Port of, 49, 58, 89, 91, 94 

 Long/own (Poor Law) Union, 111 

 Lovat, Lord, 98 



Machinery, Displacement of 



labour by, 4 

 Malmo, 82 

 Manchester, 92, 93 

 Mann, P. H., 8, 13, 14, 15 

 Manures, Compound, 70, 71 

 Market gardening, Extension of, 4 

 Marketing, Co-operative, 26, 87, 



88, 89, 90, 91 

 Markets, Insufficiency of, 89 

 Marriage of labourers, Early, 13 

 Marshall, William, 10 

 Mayland small holdings experi- 

 ment, 64, 65 

 Medical Officers of Health, Reports 



of, 19, 20, 21, 22 

 Mendclian experiments at Cam- 

 bridge, 71 ; Appendix J 

 Merton, Statute of, 52 

 Middlemen' s profits, 88 

 Middlesex, 8, 111 

 Midland Counties Agricultural 



Traders 1 Association, 95 

 Midland Farmers'' Co-operative 



Association, 80 

 Milk, Scarcity of, in rural dis- 

 tricts, 87 

 High price of, in England, 87, 88 

 Price of, in Denmark, 88 

 Minimum Wage, arguments for 

 National rate, 27 

 Hoards, local and national, 28, 



29, 30, 31 

 same for all grades of workers, 



27, 28 

 stimulus to cottage-building, 



40, 41, 42 

 Effect of, on farmers, 32, 33, 

 34, 66 



