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unit have taken place, though each has managed ultimately 

 to develop leadership and select a general manager and an 

 executive committee efficient enough to carry on. The 

 larger the units become that is, the more nearly their 

 operations approach factory proportions the more diffi- 

 cult become the problems of management and distribution. 

 As long as the units remain in the city and as long as they 

 produce by factory methods surpluses which they can ex- 

 change for the commodities they do not make, they will 

 have all the limitations under which cooperative organiza- 

 tions generally labor. Only exceptional leadership will in 

 my opinion enable the units to maintain themselves when 

 opportunities for outside employment increase for the 

 members. 



"The Homestead Unit, the new experiment to which 

 Dayton is now committing itself as fast as suitable tracts of 

 land can be secured and the necessary funds raised, goes far 

 beyond the Production Unit. In the Homestead Units, 

 which are to be located within a fifteen-mile radius of the 

 city, the families belonging to each unit will build their 

 own homes and grow their own crops in addition to carry- 

 ing on the group activities which the unit as a whole may 

 decide on. Each tract will be owned by the unit as a whole; 

 the homesteads will be granted to members under perpetual 

 leaseholds and will consist of about three acres each. The 

 pasture, wood -lot, and community buildings will be owned 

 by the unit and used by the members under rules and 

 regulations established by the whole group. Each family in 

 the unit is expected to build its own home, poultry-house, 

 cow-shed, and workshop; to cultivate a garden, set out an 

 orchard and berry patch, and become as nearly self-suffi- 



