PRINCIPLES OF LAND SETTLEMENT 



money and with much labour, to estab- 

 lish thriving and permanent communities 

 on the arid lands that still remain to be 

 developed in the United States and the 

 British Empire. 



Individual Settlement: 



Now, the success of individual settle- 

 ment—by which I mean the acquisition 

 of a farm by a single individual— de- 

 pends upon certain definite principles. 

 These may be termed the "principles of 

 selection." How much money has been 

 wasted, how much toil expended, how 

 many lives sacrificed, simply because the 

 principles of selection were unknown or 

 ignored? The rich, hard-headed man of 

 business buys a farm— on the advice of 

 a friend— with a foot of soil on a gravel 

 subsoil and makes merry over his amaz- 

 ing bargain till his returns begin to come 

 in, when he peevishly declares that farm- 

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