National Farm Survey - no. 29, Badsey

C47 returned?

Yes

Acreage of Crops and Grass

Q9 - Potatoes, first earlies	1½ acres
Q10 - Potatoes, main crop and second earlies	1 acre
Q12 - Mangolds	¼ acre
Q23 - Orchards, with crops, fallow, or grass below the trees	11 acres
Q25 - Small Fruit, not under orchard trees	¼ acre
Q26 - Vegetables for human consumption (excluding Potatoes), Flowers and Crops under Glass	19¾ acres
Q27 - All Other Crops not specified elsewhere on this return or grown on patches of less than ¼ acre	1¾ acres
Q31 - Permanent Grass for Mowing this season	1 acre
Q33 - TOTAL OF ABOVE ITEMS, 1-32 (Total acreage of excluding Rough Grazings)	36½ acres

Labour employed on 4th June

Q35 - Wholetime regular workers, Males 21 and over	3
Q36 - Wholetime regular workers, Males 18-20	2
Q38 - Wholetime regular workers, Women and girls	1
Q42 - TOTAL WORKERS	6

Horses

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

C51 returned?

Yes

Acreage of small fruit

Q84 - Currants, red and white	¼ acre
Q87 - TOTAL ACREAGE	¼ acre

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

Q88 - Brussels Sprouts	4 acres
Q89 - Cabbage, Savoys, Kate and Sprouting Broccoli	3 acres
Q90 - Cauliflower or Broccoli (Heading)	¼ acre
Q92 - Parsnips	1½ acres
Q94 - Beetroot	½ acre
Q95 - Onions	4 acres
Q96 - Beans, Broad	1½ acres
Q98 - Peas, Green, for Market	1 acre
Q101 - Asparagus	2½ acres
Q105 - Tomatoes, growing in the open	1 acre
Q114 - Other Flowers, not under glass	½ acre
Q115 - TOTAL	19¾ acres

SF returned?

Yes

Labour on 4th June

Q129 - Workers, Whole Time Family, Male	3
Q132 - Workers, Casual, Female	2

Motive power on holding on 4th June

Q137 - Oil or Petrol Engines, Number and Horse Power	2 (5 & 2½ Horse Power)
Q140 - Wheel Tractors for field work, Number, Make and Horse Power	1 - Howard Rotary Hoe (6 Horse Power)

Rent

Q145 - If holding partly owned and partly rented, acreage and estimated rental value of land owned	16½ acres - £36
Q146 - If holding partly owned and partly rented, acreage and rent payable of land held as tenant	23 acres - £55

Length of occupation of holding

Q148a - If occupied parts of holding for different periods, Part 1, acres and length of occupation	14½ acres - 21 years
Q148b - If occupied parts of holding for different periods, Part 2, acres and length of occupation	10½ acres - 10 years
Q148c - If occupied parts of holding for different periods, Part 3, acres and length of occupation	11½ acres - 7 years

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	Yes - Occupational, Childswickham & Wichenford, Worcestershire
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 - good; Buildings - good
QB7 - Condition of farm roads	Fair
QB8 - Condition of fences	Fair
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	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 and public power
QC6 - Is it used for household purposes and/or farm purposes?	Yes - household purposes

Management

QD1 - Is farm classified as A, B or C?	A
QD3 - Condition of arable land	Good
QD4 - Condition of pasture	Good
QD5 - Use of fertilisers on arable/grass land	Arable land - adequate; Pasture land - to some extent

Field information recorded by

J E Knight & R W Sidwell - 19 Nov 1942

Primary record completed by

P BrIce - 2 Dec 1942