smallholding, n.Definitions

A Smallholding (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠struck by disaster in a good season — a law of small-scale landowning that bounty brings ruin.

A Smallholding (n.) creates ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a class of barbarians half outside society, combining all the crudity of primitive forms with all the torments of civilized countries.

A Smallholding (n.) faces ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠only one absolute barrier — the wage the smallholder pays himself — and he will keep farming down to the physical minimum.