28 APRIL 1928, Page 14

2,000 SMALL-HOLDERS.

Too few people realize how numerous the small-holdings are. Agricultural distress has been greatest in the Eastern Counties ; but it has not submerged the Cambridge small- holders. As recently pointed out by the County Land Agent, the Council has 2,000 acres under small-holdings hi one single parish, most of them on land reclaimed from the great Soham Mere. Altogether the Council has 2,000 small-holding tenants, many of them dairymen, but they keep all sorts of stock and deal in all sorts of crops.

W. BEACH THOMAS.