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AND A LIVING 



Empire, especially in Prussia and Bavaria, as 

 also in America, particularly in Southern Cali- 

 fornia the Dos Palos colony, the El Capitan 

 colony, and the British colony, besides the Co- 

 burn Township in Texas, and New Clairvaux 

 and Fellowship Farm in Massachusetts being 

 successful examples. Most of these colonies or- 

 ganize simply to secure for individuals one to 

 twenty acres, the colony making a collective first 

 payment on the tract of land bought, then car- 

 rying the interest, taxes, and subsequent pay- 

 ments of principal until the titles are cleared, 

 when they dissolve their organizations, each per- 

 son or family securing its separate holding. But 

 after disorganization, often the co-operative 

 plan continues in their buying and selling of com- 

 modities and products. 



The most recent and typical example of co- 

 operative land buying and land using is on Fel- 

 lowship Farm, in Westwood, Massachusetts. 

 Here, in 1906, a group of forty socialists, gath- 

 ered from different States and two from Scot- 

 land, organized (after they had raised $1000 to 

 pay down) and secured a beautiful, $8000 sev- 



