The estate consists of about 6000 acres, one-third of which is laid out in small holdings.
At Cudworth in Surrey a group was formed, but the owners were actuated more by the desire to lead a simple life than to prove the remunerative value of small holdings.
Lincolnshire is pre-eminently a county of small holdings, and the labouring residents in it have been accustomed to the management of them from their infancy onwards.
This, in my opinion, is the strongest reason for the encouragement ofsmall holdings in every country.
For further discussion of the advantages of small holdings, see Book IV, Chap.
France is pre-eminently a country of small holdings, and it is undoubtedly true that the system has checked the thoughtless increase of numbers.
The example of foreign countries is usually held up to Englishmen in this connexion, and the argument naturally used is that 'if small holdings answer in France and Belgium, why can they not do so in England?
Numbers of small holdings exist to-day obtained in this manner, and the custom must to some extent have counteracted the effect of enclosure.
The county council was also given power to loan money to tenants of small holdings to buy from their landlords, where they could arrange terms of purchase but had not the necessary means.
One form of this is that by which the local authorities in 1892 were empowered to buy land for the purpose of renting it out in small holdings of not more than fifteen acres each to persons who would themselves cultivate it.
Closely connected with the extension of allotments is the movement for the creation of "small holdings," or the reintroduction of small farming.
Along better roads run long chains of small holdings, so that the co-operated holders have no difficulty in marketing their produce.
A vast number of small holdings, State-created, with co-operative working.
One section pins its faith to town improvement; another to the development of small holdings; a third to cottage building; a fourth to education; a fifth to support of the price of wheat; a sixth to the destruction of landlords.
How extremely profitable it might be to substitute a single large farm for a number of small holdings is proved by Manorial Rentals.
The failure to limit the acreage which a man may keep in his own hands will discourage the creation of small holdings.
Occasionally the surveys take us behind this presumptive evidence and enable us to trace the building up of large farms out of small holdings.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small holdings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
