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be profitably employed, which would not be the 

 case on a small plantation, as there would not be 

 sufficient work for such implements, which would 

 therefore be mostly standing idle and thereby earn- 

 ing but little on their purchase price. Also on the 

 laying-out of a plantation considerable economy in 

 fencing and channelling can often be effected in a 

 larger holding as compared with a smaller one. 



However, as long as our present system of small 

 individual holdings obtains, and growers make but 

 little effort to co-operate with each other in their 

 work, it will not be possible for any rural commun- 

 ity to obtain as much of the benefit of their efforts 

 as more united action would bring. 



