80 SCIENTIFIC SURVEY OF NORWICH AND DISTRICT 
water supplies. A pleasing standard dwelling-house of Peterborough 
rustic bricks and pantiles, with bath, and a compact set of buildings— 
concrete dwarf walls, weather-boarded and tiled—has been evolved, as 
well as a standard pair of cottages for minor holdings. 
The principal arable crop is now sugar beet, 5,682 acres, a meteoric rise 
from 880 acres in 1925; barley has fallen to 4,074 acres, with wheat third 
at 3,938 acres. ‘The root acreage has fallen considerably from 2,700 to 
1,900 acres in the past ten years, the loss of home-produced feeding stuffs 
being replaced by sugar beet pulp. Potatoes and fruit are important 
crops in the Fens occupying 2,095 acres and 1,050 acres respectively. 
Bullocks are fattened by smallholders, often from home-bred calves. 
A large head of poultry is also kept on up-to-date methods. 
The largest estate is at Burlingham—midway between Norwich and 
Yarmouth—consisting of 3,995 acres with 163 tenants. The woods on 
this estate, 50 acres, are systematically felled and replanted, being very 
suitable for larch, oak, ash and chestnut. 
The average rental is {2 per acre and 85 per cent. of the tenants pay 
promptly, 134 per cent. are not such ready payers, but the actual failures 
are only about 14 per cent. 
On an average, one-fifteenth of the holdings change hands annually, 
and even during the recent trying times approximately twenty tenants 
yearly left to take larger farms. Some very striking examples of success 
by agricultural labourers and ex-service men from very small beginnings 
have been obtained. 
Even during the past two years the Small Holdings’ Committee has 
been optimistically buying land—often at bargain prices—their policy 
being to provide the type of holding found by experience to be most 
suitable to the district. 
At Michaelmas last, tenants were found for 162 holdings, comprising 
2,737 acres, and at present only five holdings, totalling 44 acres, are in 
hand, pending equipment, besides a few odd marshes. 
Considerable assistance is rendered to the small holders by the staffs 
of the Agricultural and Horticultural Stations and by the Council in 
liming where necessary. 
HORTICULTURE. 
Horticulture has developed rapidly in Norfolk. It was during the war — 
years, when efforts were being made to cultivate all the available land, 
that farmers turned their eyes to new developments, and from a small — 
beginning an important industry in horticulture has arisen in Norfolk. 
In Norfolk the production of horticultural crops has been rapid in 
recent years, and with the continued depression in agriculture, farmers 
have turned to sidelines, developing horticulture as one endeavour to 
improve their prospects. 
From King’s Lynn to Wisbech in the Marshlands of West Norfolk, 
will be found the largest block of top fruit trees and strawberry plantations — 
in the British Isles, together with a large acreage of pears, plums, cherries 
and gooseberries. In this district the glasshouse industry has developed 
considerably, and now that there is a prospect of an improved water supply 
