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agricultural settlements in the neighbour- 

 hood of manufacturing towns and watering- 

 places. I think that such settlements might 

 do a flourishing trade in butter, milk and 

 eggs, in vegetables, poultry, fruit, and 

 flowers. I believe that they should be run 

 upon co-operative lines. 



I am sure also that there is a great open- 

 ing for "petite culture" in country districts 

 in England. The greatest hope of success 

 in these ventures lies in combination. A 

 number of women might do well where 

 one would fail. The chief obstacle to the 

 success of working allotments is the cost of 

 freight. The greatest hope of meeting the 

 railway companies is to send large instead of 

 small parcels of produce, which is another 

 argument for working in combination. Some 

 day perhaps such settlements may be able 

 to charter their own motor vans, and thus 

 remove the main obstable to farming on a 

 small scale in England. 



It seems to me that cultured and educated 



