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furrows, and you are sowing the seed which to- 

 morrow will give your social harvest." 



I said at the outset that this book was not for 

 colonists, yet I cannot overlook the fact that the 

 movement countryward is taking on some features 

 that look toward getting out of the city in a lump. 

 There are not a few persons who lack the initiative 

 and can only move in platoons. The Salvation 

 Army deals with this class of people, and does it 

 successfully. Their farm colonies, moving whole 

 families together, are working well. The National 

 Government is discussing the question of assisting 

 this movement by adequate appropriations. 



Mechanics of small means, and clerks with 

 meager salaries, apprentices whose income only 

 permits them to live in dreadful boarding-houses — 

 these will do well to club together and buy coun- 

 try places near trolley lines. This is sometimes 

 feasible by giving to a married man the manage- 

 ment of the house and the land. Here can be had 

 wholesome food, fresh air, rational exercise, and 

 delightful lodgment. I imagine that we shall see 

 a great increase of this sort of club life in the 

 country. 



Cooperation is not a new idea; for our fathers 



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