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.] 



Small Holdings Act Considerable progress has been made 

 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 



