The Landowner's Part 



several farms, but the time has come when 

 this policy must be not only discontinued 

 but reversed whenever possible. Wherever 

 a tenant who holds several farms is not 

 doing full justice to them, one farm should 

 be taken away from him. The owner is 

 quite able to do this on the ground of good 

 estate management. It is also very undesir- 

 able for one man to hold several farms 

 under different landowners. In the future 

 landowners must make a great deal more 

 out of their estates than they do at present, 

 both by making their home farms pay well, 

 and by charging the full rental for the land 

 they let. Most of the agricultural land of 

 England is under-rented, and low rental and 

 low farming go hand in hand. If the land- 

 owner will make more out of his estate, and 

 will run it successfully as a business, this 

 will do more than anything else to improve 

 the standard of cultivation. The business 

 that is barely paying its way has a most 

 depressing effect on all concerned in it, 

 whereas nothing is more vitalizing and in- 

 teresting than the business which is flourish- 

 ing, and which is always on the upgrade. 



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