Abstract
FEW movements of recent years have attracted greater interest than the migration from town to country that now plays so large a part in the life of the village community. Not only does the well-to-do man live further out into the country, but the humbler town-dweller is being enticed out; and the agricultural labourer, instead of drifting off unheeded to the town, finds all sorts of inducements held out to him to remain where he is. Small holdings are one of the most important developments of this movement, and they are encouraged with the twofold object of getting more produce out of the land and of bringing up the next generation in the country rather than in the unhealthier conditions of the town. It is arguable that the small holding, is, per se, uneconomical, since the small holder cannot have the intelligence of the good farmer, or he would long ago have become a large holder; but there can be no difference of opinion as to the desirability of raising the next generation in the country. This social aspect of the question has to be kept in view in dealing with the rather bulky literature that has grown up on the subject.
To Work a Grass Holding at a Living Profit, and the Cheap Cottage Problem.
By H. B. M. Buchanan. Pp. vi + 102. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1910.) Price 1s. net.
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R., E. To Work a Grass Holding at a Living Profit, and the Cheap Cottage Problem . Nature 86, 209 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086209a0
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