PRINCIPLES OF LAND SETTLEMENT 



By this I mean that to every dry-land 

 settlement there should be attached a dry- 

 land experiment station with a superin- 

 tendent in charge : and to every irrigation 

 settlement an experimental irrigation 

 station with an engineer in charge. With 

 these men to advise the settlers free of 

 cost it would be impossible for them to 

 make serious errors in their farming 

 practice. Thus each colonist would be 

 linked for all time to the Agricultural 

 and Irrigation Departments. In case of 

 an outbreak of disease in animals or crops 

 the different Government experts could 

 be wired for and the pest eradicated or 

 the farm placed under quarantine. 



The fifth principle is mixed farming. 

 Consider a community of 10,000 farmers 

 all growing wheat ; it is ravaged by rust ; 

 the settlers are ruined and the country 

 staggered. But suppose they also have 

 their maize, their silos, and their dairy 

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