THE COUNTRY HOME [CHAPTER 
I see no reason why adjacent farms shall not 
build their houses within calling distance of one 
another. This is all the more easy now that ten to 
twenty acres is held to be enough for good tillage. 
What can be done with two farmhouses can be 
done with three or four forming a group of houses 
near adjacent corners. This intimacy would re- 
quire good neighbors, but it would tend to develop 
neighborliness. It would cultivate a rivalry in the 
way of well-kept lawns and orchards, and create a 
comparison of methods and results. A letter, de- 
scribing something of this kind, says, ““When sud- 
den illness occurs, somebody is near by to help. Of 
course we can quarrel more easily, but the quarrel 
is not likely to be as lasting as if we lived farther 
apart.” This whole question of codéperation in 
country life is still an unfinished problem. Co- 
6peration in the way of building, harvesting, and 
domestic industries is taking a new and broader 
sweep. Codperative marketing will follow co- 
Operative production. This will require a more 
accurate system of grading our products, and will 
develop a higher degree of economic education. 
Individualism cannot be satisfied to end with it- 
self. Emerson says, “Your millennium is in your 
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