14 THE PRACTICAL SIDE OF 



physique of the people. We hold that it 

 is impossible for children to live among the 

 green fields and to be fed upon milk, home- 

 made bread, and fresh vegetables and fruit, 

 without a change being effected in their 

 weight, their size, and their mental and 

 physical condition. 



(3) The prosperity of a larger number of 

 people. The existence of a colony or 

 garden village will be accompanied by 

 beneficial results to the working inhabi- 

 tants of the district; and where, as is 

 already the case in existing instances, the 

 colonists succeed, it follows that prosperity 

 is increased. 



(4) The employment of an increased number 

 of workers — (a) on the land, for the intensive 

 culture of the small holder demands abundant 

 labour; {b) in the building trade; (c) in road- 

 making, well-sinking, brick-making, hauling 

 timber and other materials from the railway 

 to the colony, in the manufacture of building 

 materials, joinery, metal-work, and a hundred 

 other articles; (d) in the handling of produce 

 grown in increased quantities on holdings 

 of small size, and in the conveyance of this 

 produce to the consumer or to the large 

 market. 



