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yard manure ; the distributing of liquid and 

 artificial manures ; the building up of high 

 stacks from the low waggon in place of the 

 elevator, and all such dehumanising work, 

 I would introduce the machine. If agri- 

 cultural machinery were used too for the 

 breaking up and cultivation of those rough 

 tracts of grass land which feed nothing 

 but rabbits, we should achieve a distinct 

 national gain. But in the interests of the 

 revival of country life, in the interests of 

 raising the standard of national physique, and 

 of bringing joy into the lives of our workers, I 

 am strongly in favour of a movement which 

 brings handicraft into play, a movement which 

 I might sum up in the phrase "the workshop, 

 plus the land." 



We have already an urban exodus which 

 might be described as the Garden City move- 

 ment, where the town workman is taken out 

 from the city to live close to the factory 

 erected in the country. This migration began 

 as far back as JefFeries' time. In his Wild 

 Life in a Southern County he writes : " It is 

 true that of late years many manufacturers 

 have found it profitable to remove their 

 workshops from the city into the country, 



