18 INTRODUCTION 



and employes in towns who often bicycle to 

 and from their work sometimes several miles 

 away. As the building is an uneconomic in- 

 vestment, landlords are not anxious to spend 

 unremunerative capital on cottages, with the 

 possibility of their not being inhabited by 

 those for whom they were intended. 



These disturbing factors show little signs 

 of self-adjustment. Some remedy has to be 

 found which the present intricate organization 

 of the industry is unable to supply. However 

 efficiently the old system on which our agri- 

 culture has depended may have played its part, 

 the weaknesses have been revealed by the 

 great crisis through which it has passed. We 

 propose to show how these weaknesses have 

 been aggravated, and how it is essential that a 

 new system be evolved to take the place of 

 the old should it chance to fail. Economics 

 demand that the soil shall yield the largest 

 quantity of crops it is capable of producing. 

 New conditions show that the occupier of the 

 land must have the greatest possible elasticity 

 for his operations to make this task profitable 

 and possible of accomplishment. 



