7 JULY 1928, page 18

In Spite Of A Few Successes Of This Sort—one Due

almost entirely to the handiwork of a woman whose husband had another job—the general conclusion of the last eight years' accumulated experience is that the holdings were too......

Where Small-holders Flourish.

Some six thousand acres of this rich land was bought by the Government in 1919. The last of the leases owned by bigger farmers are now falling in ; and the whole (except a piece......

Country Life

A FAMOUS FARMER. " Todgers's can do it when it likes "—and if anyone wishes to see how productive English farming may be at its best he should visit the land that encloses the......

—and Grain.

On the subject of British products, a tour was taken this week, under the Norfolk branch of the National Farmers' Union, to see some of the crops, especially barley crops, of......

British Bulbs—

Great numbers of bulbs are now grown in Britain ; and not only in Lincolnshire ; and they are not nearly well enough known or widely enough advertised. Personally I have......

There Is, I Think, No Doubt Whatever Of The Present

success, even in the worst years, of the two small-holding communities at Holbeach and Sutton Bridge, though not everything is ideal. Rents are high, the railways have been......

The Very Best Of The Holdings I Saw Is Not,

it must be con- fessed, at all characteristic, but is of peculiar interest. It consists only of five acres and is farmed by a carpenter. He grows an astonishing variety of......

Better Than Denmark.

One has to answer the question, how this community of small-holders compares economically with the two or three farms and farmers they supplanted. The act of transference has......