Small Holdings and Agriculture 



this precaution, an individual holder should 

 neglect his land the committee of the society 

 will speedily call him to account. 



" In these and other ways not only are 

 efficient economic conditions maintained, but 

 good moral influences are exercised as well. 

 Mutual interest among groups of individuals 

 well acquainted with one another, is, in fact, 

 found to be a far more powerful agency than 

 official supervision in maintaining industry and 

 integrity. 



" Still another practical advantage for the 

 small holder is that transfer from one holding to 

 a larger one can (when the land is available) be 

 readil}^ arranged by the society. If, alternatively, 

 a holder should give up his holding, it falls back, 

 not on the landowner, but on the members of 

 the society, who must make good his rent, or, 

 failing another applicant, add the vacated land 

 to that of one or more of their number." 



The two main objects to be attained by the 

 creation of a large system of small holdings are, 

 first, to get the people back on the land, and 

 second — (sadly little notice is taken of this) — to 

 put more land under intensive culture and so in- 

 crease the supply of home grown food. 



There is the very probable danger that many 

 scattered applicants who are now being provided 

 with little bits of land taken, perhaps, from a 

 good farmer, will not only fail to put the land 



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