The highest independence comes from a small plot of ground 

 intensively cultivated and made to minister to the needs of each 

 individual family without hiring help. 



The most abundant life comes from living close to nature and 

 producing the necessities with the two hands. No other life gives the 

 health, variety and independence of this life, lived out under the open 

 sky on the soil, close to Mother Nature. 



Another strong feature of this co-operative colony is the ideals 

 that are constantly held before the people. To make an ideal com- 

 munity there must be high ideals constantly held before the individ- 

 uals. Continual suggestion is the force that accomplishes worthy 

 things. 



Pure bred, registered stock for every little farmer is one of the 

 ideals that is being worked out. Each little garden home will have a 

 goat or cow for milk. These will be the best blood that can be had, 

 and registered. If 100 families have 100 pure bred Jersey or Guernsey 

 cows this will make a fine large herd to do big business on and the herd 

 male can be as good as the best, and when the settlers have any surplus 

 to sell it will bring extraordinary prices. It will take no more feed to 

 rear choice, well bred stock and while one little farmer alone cannot 

 afford a registered cow, collectively they can have the best blood at 

 the head of a co-operative group of cows. 



Each little farmer will keep a registered brood sow and rear pigs 

 that will be an honor to any stock show. With a choice registered 

 boar at the head of a group of sows the best results will be obtained. 



Likewise the highest standard will be maintained in goats, rabbits, 

 pigeons, bees and poultry. In time Runnymede will have all the best 

 popular varieties of poultry and will be able to stage its own poultry 

 show in the city. This will enable each producer to get the widest 

 advertisement with the least outlay. 



In time Runnymede co-operatively will be able to exhibit at the 

 state fair a full line of registered stock that will enable the producers 

 to profit from the sales of good stock well advertised. What a pleasure 

 for each producer to own the best animals that money can buy, for 

 there is an aesthetic beauty about pure bred animals as well as a 

 commercial value. A community bent on producing the best animals 

 will have a sort of emulation that will invoke the highest efforts. 

 What a wonderful marketing advantage this will give each settler of 

 Runnymede, for there will be enough registered stock produced to 

 make the whole world of stock raisers want to see the intensified little 

 farms at Palo Alto. 



Intensified farming on a little land is destined to revolutionize old 

 ways and bring the people back to that natural life that God intended 

 man should live. Children should grow up out under the blue sky and 

 in the open air and sunshine and live close to nature. Man has wan- 

 dered from his natural life to the artificial life of cities and has suffered 

 therefrom. It takes only a little garden soil to make an abundant 

 living with independence, health and freedom. Why should men work 

 long, weary hours in unhealthy places all the days of their lives for a 

 mere subsistence, when this fuller, more abundant way -of living is so 

 natural and practical? The fault lies with our schools of the past. 

 We have not been taught that this simple, natural life on the- soil gives 



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