National Farm Survey - no. 191, Badsey

C47 returned?

Yes

Acreage of Crops and Grass

Q3 - Oats	5 acres
Q10 - Potatoes, main crop and second earlies	¼ acre
Q23 - Orchards, with crops, fallow, or grass below the trees	5 acres
Q28 - Bare Fallow	1 acre
Q33 - TOTAL OF ABOVE ITEMS, 1-32 (Total acreage of excluding Rough Grazings)	11¼ acres

Horses

Q81 - Horses used for agricultural purposes (including mares kept for breeding) or by Market Gardeners, Mares	1
Q82 - Used for agricultural purposes (including mares kept for breeding) or by Market Gardeners, Geldings	1
Q89 - HORSES TOTAL	2

Livestock

Q73 - Poultry, Fowls over 6 months old	12
Q79 - TOTAL POULTRY	12

C51 returned?

Yes

Acreage of vegetables for human consumption, flowers, crops under glass

SF returned?

Yes

Rent

Q143 - Actual rent payable during current year	£331 18s 0d

Length of occupation of holding

Q148a - If occupied parts of holding for different periods, Part 1, acres and length of occupation	2 acres - 15 years
Q148b - If occupied parts of holding for different periods, Part 2, acres and length of occupation	3¼ acres - 12 years
Q148c - If occupied parts of holding for different periods, Part 3, acres and length of occupation	8¾ acres - 8 years

B496 returned?

Yes

Tenure

QA1 - Is occupier tenant or owner?	Tenant
QA2a - If tenant, forename of owner	A
QA2b - If tenant, surname of owner	KERR
QA2c - If tenant, address of owner	Badsey
QA3 - Is farmer full-time, part-time, spare time, hobby, other type, and other occupation, if any	Full time
QA4 - Does farmer occupy other land? If so, name of holding, parish and county	No
QA5 - Has farmer grazing rights over land not occupied by him? If so, nature of such rights	No

Conditions of Farm

QB1 - Percentage of area on which soil is heavy/medium/light/peaty	50% heavy; 50% medium
QB2 - Is farm conveniently laid out?	Moderately
QB3 - Percentage of farm which is naturally good/fair/bad	100% good
QB4 - Situation in regard to road	Fair
QB5 - Situation in regard to railway	Fair
QB6 - Condition of farmhouse and buildings	Farmhouse - fair; Buildings - bad
QB7 - Condition of farm roads	Fair
QB8 - Condition of fences	Fair
QB9 - Condition of ditches	Fair
QB10 - General condition of field drainage	Fair
QB11 - Condition of cottages	Not applicable
QB14 - Is there infestation with rabbits and moles, rats and mice, rooks and wood pigeons, other birds, insect pests?	Infestation with insect pests; no infestation with rabbits and moles, rats and mice, rooks and wood pigeons, other birds
QB15 - Is there heavy infestation with weeds? If so, kind of weeds?	No
QB16 - Are there derelict fields? If so, acreage	Yes - 2 acres

Water and Electricity

QC1 - Water supply to farmhouse	Pipe
QC2 - Water supply to farm buildings	Well & Roof
QC3 - Water supply to fields	Well
QC4 - Is there a seasonal shortage of water?	No
QC5 - Electricity supply - public light, public power, private light, private power	Electricity supply - public light
QC6 - Is it used for household purposes and/or farm purposes?	Yes - household purposes

Management

QD1 - Is farm classified as A, B or C?	C
QD2 - Reasons for B or C (old age, lack of capital, personal failings)	Personal failings - Incompetent, lacks imitative and inclination to work
QD3 - Condition of arable land	Poor
QD4 - Condition of pasture	Not applicable
QD5 - Use of fertilisers on arable/grass land	Arable land - to some extent

Field information recorded by

J E Knight & R W Sidwell - 26 Nov 1942

Primary record completed by

P BrIce - 2 Dec 1942

Notes on Farmer/Market Gardener

On Form B496, Raymond Webb, Evesham, was also listed as owner; he was presumably the agent