PROFESSOR SCOTT'S HOMECROFTING EXPERIMENT
WE have to acknowledge a promise of £25 received this week from Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, making a total of £1,435 17s. Subscriptions should be made payable to the Homecrofting Fund, should be crossed Barclays Bank (Gosling's Branch) and should be sent to us. Money may be sent either for investment in the fund—the future revenue of the fund will be derived from the rents of the Homecrofting settlement—or as a free donation. The responsibility for the administration of the money will, of course, rest with the Utility Society which Professor Scott and those legally associated with him hope to form for conducting the experi- ment at Cheltenham. We must point out again that the homecrofter must never be confused with the smallholder. The aim is not to start a settlement of smallholders who cultivate the land for the market but to encourage men who arc engaged in other occupations to put a stout barrier between themselves and the possibility of starvation by cultivating their little piece of land for the use of themselves and their families. Under modern conditions with shortened hours of labour, risks of unemployment and the virtual extension of the length of the days by Summer Time, a man and his family can do a good deal in the garden without over-straining themselves. Many, indeed, would find this a real pleasure, and all would have the satisfaction of feeling that by this means they were attaining economic freedom.
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