CHAPTER VIII 



HOW LANDLORDS CAN CREATE 

 SMALL HOLDINGS 



We have now dealt with a very great variety of 

 schemes for the artificial creation of small holdings ; 

 in every case we have seen how the success prac- 

 tically depends upon the amount of local know- 

 ledge evinced by the promoters, and the possibilities 

 that existed for fostering local growths in a natural 

 manner. In those cases where the schemes have 

 been initiated by town-men or outsiders without 

 any real understanding of the conditions, the results 

 have only too often afforded openings for adverse 

 critics ; where, however, the question has been 

 taken up by persons founding their activities on a 

 real knowledge of actual requirements, the success 

 of their undertakings has been unqualified, and 

 this, moreover, in the face of all those difficulties 

 which are created for the most part by the un- 

 necessary opposition which invariably confronts the 

 pioneer. 



In connection with these facts it is important to 

 recall that there is one class above all others who, 

 presumably, should be the best acquainted with 



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