118 CREATION OF SMALL HOLDINGS 



culturists they imagine could be done equally well 

 by townsmen elsewhere. 



It must be distinctly understood that, under our 

 present conditions of agriculture, these two ways 

 of establishing small holdings are quite separate 

 problems, although with the same ultimate aim in 

 view. In the one case we wish to find the means 

 of supplying land to that great body of men who 

 do undoubtedly exist in the rural districts, who 

 only leave for the towns because they cannot get 

 hold of land. These men are already trained up in 

 the cultivation of their particular localities : some 

 of them will be naturally intelligent and successful ; 

 others, who might be failures elsewhere, have all 

 the accumulated experience of their forbears as an 

 asset, and will succeed by rule of thumb methods. 

 Moreover, the holdings being a natural outcome of 

 the conditions of the district (or there would not 

 be this demand for them), they will work in with 

 other forms of local employment. 



In the other case it is proposed to plant out men 

 now living in towns into small-holding colonies, 

 where they are expected to earn livelihoods by the 

 land alone on definite areas, independently of local 

 connections. In the one case we are fostering a 

 natural growth ; in the other we are trying to 

 establish new and untried methods, probably 

 foreign to the district, and which therefore partake 

 more of the nature of experiments. 



Always bearing this distinction in mind, it will 

 now be found most convenient to classify the 



