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plus crops for world markets, will be subordinated to 

 the higher good of humanity. The former will require 

 the use of broad acres, labor-saving machinery, and 

 great numbers of hired hands ; for it will be industrial 

 farming pure and simple. The latter will be the home- 

 in-a-garden with organized garden and farm cities. 

 Organization will begin with wholesale purchase and im- 

 provement of land, going on through all departments of 

 their social and economic life, and reach upward to the 

 spiritual heights. 



The determining factor will be that of capital re- 

 quirement. While large capital will be essential to the 

 industrial farm, comparatively little capital will suffice 

 for the garden home or farm. 



The development clearly foreshadowed by the in- 

 exorable law of social and economic growth may be 

 stated thus: "Big farms bigger; small farms smaller." 



While I have quite deliberately refrained from dis- 

 cussing the vexed question of land tenure in these pages, 

 a question that will never seriously arise until men 

 have a far keener appreciation of the earth as the 

 source of all material good than now obtains, at least 

 in the United States it ought to be said that the gen- 

 uine home-builder, and not the speculator, is the man 

 who deserves consideration in the shaping of our social 

 policies. In California, where these policies are fur- 

 thest advanced, the settler in state colonies is required 

 to live on his land ten years; if he desires to sell and 

 move away within that period, he must obtain written 

 consent of the State Board of Land Settlement. This 

 will be given when circumstances warrant, but if the 

 settler goes, he is not permitted to carry away that por- 



