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caught in the maelstrom of city life. Several 

 societies are making systematic efforts to send 

 as many as possible to farming communities 

 where labor is needed, or to buy lands and lay out 

 farms where families released from the sweat- 

 shops and tenements of the cities can live in 

 comparative comfort while becoming independ- 

 ent and earning homes. Such experimental col- 

 onies have been started in small ways by the 

 Baron de Hirsch fund, the Industrial Removal 

 Society, the Jewish benevolent societies and 

 others. For instance, at Arpin, in the northern 

 woods of Wisconsin, a farming settlement has 

 been in operation for over three years and the 

 plan seems to be working successfully. The 

 ground was laid out and each family was pro- 

 vided with a team of horses, a cow and necessary 

 farming implements. The men were paid a 

 weekly wage by the association and were on pro- 

 bation for one year. At the end of the year, if 

 mutually satisfied, a contract was signed, giving 

 the family ten years in which to pay for the land 

 and equipment, and the profit realized by the as- 

 sociation from the man's work over the wages 



