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already established by the unemployed in the city 

 itself. In the Homestead Units the group activities 

 and cooperative manufacturing carried on by the Pro- 

 duction Units in the city might be continued to what- 

 ever extent the individuals in each group desired. The 

 whole tract of land would be owned by the unit; title 

 to the individual homesteads would be based upon 

 perpetual leases, thus preventing speculation in land. 

 If the farm buildings already on the tract were not 

 suitable for use as community buildings, they would 

 be gradually altered for this purpose. The pasture, 

 wood lot, and community buildings would be owned 

 by the unit as a whole and used by the individual 

 homesteaders under rules and regulations established 

 by the group. Tractors or horses, trucks, and heavy 

 agricultural implements might also be cooperatively 

 owned. Grain farming might be carried on by some 

 units cooperatively, just as the city units produced 

 clothes, bread, and other goods cooperatively. As 

 much or as little communal life as the group desired 

 was thus provided for, the balance between collec- 

 tivism and individualism swinging in whatever direc- 

 tion experience and inclination pointed. Each family 

 was expected, however, to build its own home, poul- 

 try-house, cow-shed, and workshop; to cultivate its 

 own garden, and set out its own orchard and berry 

 patch, and become in this new and modernized setting 

 almost as self-sufficient and independent as were the 

 pioneers of the country a hundred years ago. Trades 

 and crafts were expected to develop and selling and 



