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Garden, ]\Ir. Fels's manager now sends non- 

 returnable crates, carriage paid within a London 

 radius, filled with farm produce to the value 

 of 2s. 6d., 5s., and 10s. Cream, butter, eggs, 

 honey, chickens, fresh and bottled fruit, and 

 pork are sent away, as well as vegetables. 

 The fundamental idea is to increase the 

 business in such a way that the manager will 

 be able to direct a regular and remunerative 

 method of cropping each holding. 



The administration of these small holdings, 

 and the care taken in the education of the 

 children in the splendid open-air school, is all 

 admirable. Mechanism here seems faultless ; 

 but somehow one cannot help feeling that the 

 spirit of associated labour is lacking. One 

 cannot help feeling too, that to know how to 

 handle men is as important in starting a farm 

 colony as to know how to handle live-stock. It 

 is excellent that a tract of land which formerly 

 employed only three men and two boys now 

 finds full employment for fifty-three men and 

 seven boys. It is splendid too how a new 

 village has sprung up in a waste place of the 

 earth with its new human fauna ; but though 

 it has not outw^ardly the common aspects 

 of an old P^nglish village, with its squire 



