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CHAP ' PAGE 



JIVIII. Legislative Action in Favour of Small Holdings .... 125 



a. The Small Holdings Acts 125 



b. The Working of the Act of 1907 147 



IX. The Respective Economic Advantages of the Large and Small 



Holding I54 



Introductory 154 



A. In relation to the various branches of Agriculture . . 156 



a. Corn- Production 156 



b. Vegetable and Fruit Growing 162 



c. Stock Farming 168 



(1) Cattle-breeding 168 



(2) Dairying 172 



(3) Pig-keeping 178 



(4) Poultry-keeping 178 



(5) Pedigree Stock-breeding 179 



d. Summary and Conclusions 180 



B. General Advantages and Disadvantages . . . .183 



X. Agricultural Co-operation 187 



XI. Historical Retrospect and Present Outlook 200 



APPENDIX I. The modern Small Farmer and the Question of Home 



Colonisation: a Problem of Sociology .... 214 



APPENDIX II. Statistics relating to the Geographical Distribution of 



Large and Small Farms 223 



APPENDIX 1 1 1. List of Authorities quoted . 230 



INDEX 243 



Journal R. A. S.= Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. 



Report of i88i=Report of the Royal Commission on the Depressed Condition 

 of the Agricultural Interest, 1880-2. 



Small Holdings Report, 1889= Report from the Select Committee on Small 

 Holdings, 1889. 



Report of 1894= First (Second, etc.) Report of the Royal Commission on the 

 subject of Agricultural Depression, 1894-7. 



Final Report = Final Report of the Royal Commission on the subject of Agri- 

 cultural Depression, 1894-7. 



Small Holdings Report, 1906= Report of the Departmental Committee ap- 

 pointed by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to enquire into the subject of 

 Small Holdings in Great Britain, 1906. 



