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extent, especially upon the heavy lands to which it 

 is naturally adapted ; but the number of cows and 

 horned stock, and also of pigs, that were kept would 

 be enormously increased. Every one of these cows 

 would be visited fortnightly, not by a Government 

 inspector, but by a skilled person, probably a woman, 

 highly trained in the State colleges, who would test 

 its milk, prescribe the exact proportions of the food 

 it should receive, and if it were sick how it should 

 be treated. Moreover, there would be hospitals to 

 which ailing beasts could be sent for a small fee. 



In the towns not far from the factories would 

 stand the High Schools, to which young men and 

 women would flock to complete the education that 

 they had begun in the State elementary and secondary 

 schools. 



The labourers would not be so numerous as they 

 are at present, because many of that class would be 

 working on State small-holdings of their own, and 

 more of the families of the small farmers would be 

 employed on the actual business of their farms. 

 Still the sons of these small-holders, or people who 

 were saving money to enable them to fill that posi- 

 tion, would supply the necessary labour upon the 

 larger properties. Owing to the prospects of a local 

 career which the land would afford in its improved 

 state, the exodus from the country to the towns and 

 overseas would be greatly lessened and the present 

 rural population probably be doubled. 



Land would have risen considerably in value for 

 the reason that owing to the elimination of the 

 tenant's profit, also of most middlemen's charges ob- 

 viated by the working of the co-operative system, it 

 would be possible for the owner-farmer to net a 



