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veniently equipped for warmth, cooking, and 

 all necessary domestic purposes. The arrange- 

 ment of the land, whether adjacent to the 

 house or not, is a matter for the decision of 

 the occupier, and will be controlled by his 

 system of culture; but, in any case, he should 

 provide a garden of sufficient size to supply 

 his own table, and this should include a 

 poultry yard, a piggery for a breeding sow 

 or two, and, in the absence of a cow, 

 one or two milch goats for the provision of 

 milk for his children. 



A common or club room should be estab- 

 lished for tne use of the whole colony, and in 

 some way supplied with newspapers, especially 

 those representing farming and gardening, 

 with technical books, some innocent games, 

 and a few works of reference. There should 

 be a co-operative society controlled by a 

 committee elected by the colonists themselves, 

 and intended for the purchase and supply 

 of food — whether for the home or the 

 stock — manure, seeds, implements and 

 utensils, coals, and the provision of the 

 more costly articles of farm equipment, to 

 be used in turn. 



The committee, too, should be charged 

 with the conduct of the repair of the 



