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in occupation, is the one point on which the 

 scheme has been disappointing. But as the 

 occupiers do not entirely depend on their 

 holdings as a source of living, and owing to 

 the fact that a large amount of their produce 

 can be disposed of locally, the question of 

 some organized system of buying and selling 

 is not of such importance as it might have 

 been under other circumstances. Satisfactory 

 to the initiators as it would undoubtedly have 

 been to have overcome this obstacle, their 

 failure to do so has not to any great extent 

 detracted from the success and value of the 

 experiment. 



Special notice should be taken that these 

 small holdings are only cultivated in connection 

 with other employment. They are in no sense 

 allotments, however, as in almost every case 

 the holder has been able to build a house to 

 live in on his property, and nearly every hold- 

 ing has a hard road frontage. 



The effect on the village has been remark- 

 able. The question of rural housing, which 

 before had been a pressing problem, has been 

 entirely solved. The depopulation had been 

 marked, but has stopped ; and the last two 



