THE RURAL PROBLEM 



109 



Schools, Farm, 71, 72 



Smallholders', in Denmark, 72 

 Scotland, Percentage of land 



covered with trees in, ]()."> 

 Scottish Congested Districts Board, 



Department of Agriculture, 99 

 Security of tenure, (Hi 

 Selby, 93 



Servia, 74, 79, 105 

 Shepherds, Wages of, 7, 9 

 Single Tax, The, 47 

 Site vedues of rural land, 109 

 Small holder, Qualities essential to 



success of, 63 

 Small holdings, Advantages of, 54, 

 55, 50 

 Demand for, 58 

 High rents of, 59 

 Effect on village of, o~>, 56 

 Economic argument for, 52, 



53, 54 

 tenancy versus ownership, 67, 

 68, 6*9 

 Small Holdings and Allotments 

 Act, 1908, 57 

 Working of, 57, 58 

 Powers of, 75 

 Comparative failure 

 of, 59, 60, 61 

 Somerset, 10, 18, 58 

 Southampton, 94 

 Southern Counties Agricultural 



Trading Society, 80 

 Sloive-, 89 

 Suffolk, 7, 9, 33 

 Surrey, 106 

 Stissex, 18, 108 



Sweden, Co-operative purchase in, 

 79 

 Co-operative dairies in, 81, 82 

 Percentage of land covered with 

 trees in, 105 

 Switzerland, Co-operative pur- 

 chase in, 79 

 Syndicat Centrale des Agriculteurs 

 de France, 79 



Tenancy versus ownership, 66, 67, 

 68, <i!) 



of farmers, 67, 68 

 Tenure of small holder, 67, 68, 69 



of farmer, 66, 67, OS, C,U 



Security of, (Hi, fi? 

 Thompson, Alderman, 18, 21 

 Thrift and Credit Bank* Hill, 84 

 Timber, Importation of, 105 

 Tobacco growing, 75 

 Trade Unions for Agricultural 



Labourers, 26, 27, 31 

 Travelling agricultural instructors, 



71, 72 

 Tumor, Christopher, 32, 45, 54, 



88, 100 

 Tyrannies of village life, 23, 24 



Unearned increment on rural land, 



Taxation of, 109 

 Utrecht, 86 



Valuation of land, 47, 48, 49, 50, 



51 

 Value of monev. Decrease in, 16, 



17 

 Vuyst, M., 54 



Wages of agricultural labourers, 

 7,8,9 

 Boards, 28, 29, 30, 31 

 Rise in, 17, 25 



Higher, result in better work, 32 

 See also Minimum Wage 



Waneickshire, 11 



Webb, Sidney, 108, 110 



Wells, H. G., 55 



West Midland Farmers'' Asso- 

 ciation, 80 



Westmorland, 9 



Wheat, Fall in price of, 53 



Wiltshire Farmers, Ltd., 82, 90 



Women in agriculture, 2, 13 



Worcestershire, 57 



Wye, 92 



Tariff Reform , 25 

 Tawney, R. H., 53, 55 

 Taxation of land, 25, 47, 109 

 of game-preserving, 103, 104 



York, 15 

 Yorkshire, 9 



Zola, Emile, 68 



