CONSOLIDATION OF HOLDINGS 365 



Readjustment and Absorption of Lots. 



The second point to be observed is the distinct 

 tendency to the absorption of a certain number of 

 the original lots by the more successful holders 

 when for various reasons plots become vacant. 



The following table shows how this has taken 

 place up to the present time : 



The moral that this fact seems to point is that, 

 by a process of natural selection, the unsuitable 

 men will soon get weeded out, and their place be 

 taken by the men who have proved themselves 

 to be so successful that they are in a position to 

 increase their holdings in this way at the end of a 

 few years ; and by this process also we arrive 

 gradually at that size which proves itself to be 

 the most economic for their particular type of 

 cultivation. 



