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which is then given to his operations, is quite 

 incompatible with our small-holders' ideas of 

 business. The extremely small measure of 

 success attained by the Agricultural Organiza- 

 tion Society after many years of praiseworthy 

 efforts is not on account of the failure of small- 

 holders to appreciate the value of organization, 

 but owing to the particular system which that 

 body tries to inculcate being inconsistent with 

 our character. 



The present Act is therefore found on 

 analysis to be inefficient in the two most im- 

 portant features of its operation — i.e., the 

 tenure of land under which the small-holders 

 are created, and the organization which is fur- 

 nislied them. Our immediate object is to 

 endeavour to trace fi'om successful practical 

 experiments which have been conducted in 

 different parts of the country a method of pro- 

 viding holdings for occupation and purchase, 

 on terms which, while incurring no risk to the 

 State, will not smother the demand for land 

 wliich exists at the present time, not only in 

 our country districts, but in our industrial 

 centres. An organization must also be evolved 

 which, having supplied the land, will at the 



