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bartering of produce of which individual homesteads 

 had a surplus, but no such emphasis was to be placed 

 upon this as to force a trend toward large-scale 

 production. 



The plans looked toward the building of permanent 

 and beautiful homes. Construction was to follow 

 lines developed by Ernest Flagg for the building of 

 beautiful and inexpensive small homes. The high cost 

 and wastes involved in building cellars was therefore 

 to be avoided. While building the first wing of their 

 homes, the homesteaders were to commute between 

 Dayton and their new homes, though some of them 

 might camp out, more or less, if the farm buildings 

 on the site made it practicable to do so. As soon as 

 they were on the site, they were to begin to garden, 

 to build their own furniture in their own workshops, 

 to weave cloth on their own looms, and to make their 

 own clothes on their own sewing-machines. Elec- 

 tricity was to be brought in for both light and power, 

 and domestic machinery and appliances used to re- 

 duce drudgery to a minimum. The crushing burdens 

 of elaborate water and sewage systems were to be 

 avoided by the use of individual automatic pumps and 

 individual septic tanks. 



Dayton, which is this year establishing its first 

 homestead units, is demonstrating what can be done 

 with very little cash even by unemployed families. 

 But that an individual family can establish itself on 

 a homestead with an even smaller cash investment 

 than provided for in the Dayton plan was demon- 



