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BULLETIN 1234, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Only recently the Imperial Austrian Government began a cam- 
paign to remedy this system of land tenure, so wasteful of time and 
energy, by concentrating the holdings of a single individual into a few 
fair-sized fields. Many difficulties had to be overcome in each case 
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because of local prejudices and " conservatism," but great progress 
was being made when the, war opened. The beneficial results of 
the concentration of individual holdings can be seen by a glance at 
the map of Steinhaus shown above after the concentration of the 
plots owned by a single Individual had been effected. 
