Treatment of Estates 



thing to do from the national point of 

 view, and often for the good of the 

 farmer himself. If a man is not master 

 of his farm he will let it down so 

 seriously that it will take years to re- 

 cover; this injurious process should be 

 nipped in the bud. 



(4) Landowners should divide up their 

 larger farms wherever possible, and 

 above all not let tenants add farm to 

 farm. It is a great temptation to let a 

 really good farmer, holding say 400 acres, 

 take a neighbouring farm of 100 acres 

 when it comes on hand, but the tempta- 

 tion should be resisted. 



(5) Woodlands should be managed on a 

 commercial basis, and a much larger 

 amount of timber per acre should be 

 produced. In foreign forestry as com- 

 pared with ours at least double the 

 number of trees are grown per acre, 

 and if a really effective organization for 

 selling timber could be created a fair 

 profit from woodlands should be possible 

 even in England. 



(6) There is no doubt that the size of the 



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