National Farm Survey - no. 107, Badsey

C47 returned?

Yes

Acreage of Crops and Grass

Q10 - Potatoes, main crop and second earlies	½ acre
Q23 - Orchards, with crops, fallow, or grass below the trees	4 acres
Q26 - Vegetables for human consumption (excluding Potatoes), Flowers and Crops under Glass	18 acres
Q27 - All Other Crops not specified elsewhere on this return or grown on patches of less than ¼ acre	½ acre
Q28 - Bare Fallow	¼ acre
Q33 - TOTAL OF ABOVE ITEMS, 1-32 (Total acreage of excluding Rough Grazings)	23¼ acres

Labour employed on 4th June

Q35 - Wholetime regular workers, Males 21 and over	3
Q38 - Wholetime regular workers, Women and girls	3
Q41 - Casual (seasonal or part-time) workers, Women and girls	3
Q42 - TOTAL WORKERS	9

Horses

Q88 - All Other	1
Q89 - HORSES TOTAL	1

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

Q88 - Brussels Sprouts	3 acres
Q89 - Cabbage, Savoys, Kate and Sprouting Broccoli	1 acre
Q90 - Cauliflower or Broccoli (Heading)	1 acre
Q94 - Beetroot	1 acre
Q95 - Onions	1½ acres
Q97 - Beans, Runner and French	1 acre
Q98 - Peas, Green, for Market	1 acre
Q101 - Asparagus	1½ acres
Q104 - Rhubarb	½ acre
Q105 - Tomatoes, growing in the open	5 acres
Q114 - Other Flowers, not under glass	1½ acres
Q115 - TOTAL	18 acres

SF returned?

Yes

Labour on 4th June

Q131 - Workers, Casual, Male	4

Motive power on holding on 4th June

Q140 - Wheel Tractors for field work, Number, Make and Horse Power	6 - MG

Rent

Q144 - If holding owned by you, best estimated annual rental value	£56
Q145 - If holding partly owned and partly rented, acreage and estimated rental value of land owned	15 acres - £56

Length of occupation of holding

Q147 - How many years have you been the occupier of the holding?	20 years (12½ acres); 3 years (2½ acres)

B496 returned?

Yes

Tenure

QA1 - Is occupier tenant or owner?	Owner and Tenant
QA2a - If tenant, forename of owner	Raymond
QA2b - If tenant, surname of owner	WEBB
QA2c - If tenant, address of owner	Evesham
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?	Yes
QB3 - Percentage of farm which is naturally good/fair/bad	100% good
QB4 - Situation in regard to road	Good
QB5 - Situation in regard to railway	Fair
QB6 - Condition of farmhouse and buildings	Farmhouse - good; Buildings - good
QB7 - Condition of farm roads	Good
QB8 - Condition of fences	Good
QB9 - Condition of ditches	Good
QB10 - General condition of field drainage	Good
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?	No infestation
QB15 - Is there heavy infestation with weeds? If so, kind of weeds?	No
QB16 - Are there derelict fields? If so, acreage	No

Water and Electricity

QC1 - Water supply to farmhouse	Pipe
QC2 - Water supply to farm buildings	Pipe & 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 and public power
QC6 - Is it used for household purposes and/or farm purposes?	Yes - household and farm purposes

Management

QD1 - Is farm classified as A, B or C?	A
QD3 - Condition of arable land	Good
QD4 - Condition of pasture	Not applicable
QD5 - Use of fertilisers on arable/grass land	Arable land - adequate

Field information recorded by

J E Knight & R W Sidwell - 24 Nov 1942

Primary record completed by

P BrIce - 2 Dec 1942