i2o Administration of the Small Holdings Act. [may, 
measure will be practicable. In a confined area where the 
caterpillars are at work the use of bisulphide of carbon 
injected into the soil would destroy them. 
In addition to birds, there is help from nature from moles 
and from two species of parasitic fungi, viz., Cordyceps 
militaris and Cordyceps entomorrhiza. 
The Report of the Small Holdings Commissioners on the 
administration of the Small Holdings Act during the year 
1910 has recently been issued [Cd. 5615. 
The Administration Price 3jd.] 
* n ™ a , Considerable progress has been made 
Small Holdings Act ^ & 
in 1910. during the past year in satisfying the 
demand for small holdings, and the 
position on the 31st December last was that 89,253 acres had 
been actually acquired or agreed to be acquired for small 
holdings by County Councils in England and Wales, of which 
53,642 acres had been purchased for ,£1,695,836, and 35,611 
acres leased for rents amounting to £44,489. Of this land 
65,923 acres had been actually let to 4,846 individual small 
holders, and 52 acres sold to seven small holders. In addition 
3,454 acres had been let to 27 Co-operative Small Holdings 
Associations, who had sublet the land to 490 of their 
members, and 2,192 applicants had been provided with 27,000 
acres by private landowners direct, mainly through the instru- 
mentality of the Councils. The land which has been acquired 
but not yet allotted will probably provide for another 1,500 
applicants, and it will therefore be seen that the Act has 
resulted in the provision of land for approximately 9,035 
applicants in three years. 
During 1910 fresh applications were received by County 
Councils from 4,003 individuals and seven Associations for 
70,253 acres, bringing the total number of applicants since the 
Act came into operation up to 30,886 and 34 Associations, and 
the total quantity of land applied for up to 507,377 acres. Of 
these applicants 17,595 had been provisionally approved for 
256,134 acres up to the end of 1910. From returns supplied 
by County Councils the number of applicants remaining on 
the Council's books for whom land had not been acquired or 
