Chook Me!

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Summary: The sale of land in smallholdings by Smallowners Ltd from 1911 led to a big increase in Orchard and small fruit production, as well as poultry. A Hartley poultry farmer (1915) Between the wars there was a massive decline in arable acreage - the result of the lowest grain prices for 150 years, by 1937 arable

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