Garden City and Agriculture: How to Solve the Problem of Rural DepopulationSimpkin, Marshall, Hamilton Kent, 1905 - 180 pages |
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Page 31 - The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle, that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations...
Page 34 - The consolidation of farms reduced the number of farmers, while the enclosures drove the labourers off the land as it became impossible for them to exist without their rights of pasturage for sheep and geese on common lands. Severely, however, as these changes bore upon the rural population, they wrought, without doubt, distinct improvement from an agricultural point of view. They meant the substitution of scientific...
Page 135 - At every considerable house there was a manufactory. Every clothier keeps one horse at least to carry his manufactures to the market ; and every one generally keeps a cow or two or more for his family.
Page 135 - Hallifax, we found the houses thicker, and the villages greater in every bottom; and not only so, but the sides of the hills, which were very steep every way, were spread with houses, and that very thick; for the land being divided into small enclosures, that is to say, from two acres to six or seven acres each, seldom more; every three or four pieces of land had a house belonging to it.
Page 10 - He who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a benefactor of the race.
Page 151 - The exceptional features of this scheme are that the town is to be limited to a population of about 30,000 inhabitants, that the greater proportion of the estate is to be retained for agricultural purposes, and that the dividends to shareholders are to be limited to a cumulative dividend of five per cent, per annum. In the event of a winding-up the shareholders would be entitled to no more than a return of their capital, with a bonus not exceeding ten per cent, plus any arrears of dividend.
Page 146 - Secondarily, by encouraging the tendency of manufacturers to remove their works from congested centres to the country ; by cooperating or advising with such firms, public bodies, and other associations to secure better housing accommodation for work-people near to their places of employment ; by taking steps to promote effective legislation with this end in view ; and by generally advocating the ordered design and development of towns.
Page 146 - ) designed from the outset to secure healthful and adequate housing for the whole population, and in which the inhabitants shall become in a collective capacity the owners of the sites, subject to full recognition of public as well as individual results.
Page 59 - ... little money. He took half an acre, then three acres and the proverbial cow ; then, when nearly sixty years of age, seized the opportunity to hire a small farm of fifty acres, which he managed to enter and stock, except with sheep. To purchase these, the Scawby Society granted him a loan of...
Page 31 - ... injustice of their oppressors. On the contrary, when they are secure of enjoying the fruits of their industry, they naturally exert it to better their condition, and to acquire not only the necessaries, but the conveniences and elegancies of life.