Citations:smallholding


 * 1900 December 26th, Viator (pseudonym?), “The Polish Danger” (Letter to the Editor) in The Times, № 36,342 (Thursday 3rd January 1901), page 5/6:
 * The heads of the other movement for cutting up large estates into small on purely economic, non-political lines, practically, to use a vulgar expression, “crowed over them.” They sold their newly-formed small holdings by preference to Poles, finding them the better settlers, equally thrifty, equally painstaking, equally good husbandmen, and more easily contented at the outset. The “Colonization Commission” must sell only to Germans — good settlers, if possible, but in any case Germans.