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THE LITTLE DEMOCRACY

tion will be grouped among the various industries on the same ratio as the population of the United States at the last census, we would have about seventy farmers for each thousand of population, or each mile of Roadtown. This would permit each farmer to have nearly twenty acres to farm within a mile distance of the house line and by going as far as three miles for crops needing but occasional attention the Roadtown farmer could cultivate sixty acres and yet live in a continuous house with greater comforts and conveniences than present city apartment hotel dwellers."