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agricultural labourers are also spiall owners 

 on their own account, and it is this which 

 attaches them to the soil. 



No class shotild be left out of view ; but 

 perhaps the most promising line now opening 

 out for the regeneration of villageJife is that of 

 colonisation by groups of cultivators in co- 

 operation ; and experience goes to show that 

 owners, who have to depend on themselves, 

 are more ready to co-operate than tenants. 

 Both in Denmark and in Ireland successful 

 co-operation rests on ownership. The time 

 seems jipe for this movement, which is not 

 the same thing as the peasant proprietary 

 discussed by the Duke of Richmond's Com- 

 mission forty years ago. The circumstances 

 also are differerit, The acute depression is 

 passed and the omens are more favourable. 

 The land has been brought into a better con- 

 dition than ever before ; the costly improve- 

 ments — reclamation of waste, drainage, fenc- 

 ing, road-making — have been accomplished, 

 and a great extension of transport facilities 

 is coming on. With united, sincere, and judi- 

 cious effort a new and" more hopeful phase 

 may be gradually opened up for British 

 agriculture. 



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