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Helping Men Own Farms; A Practical Discussion of Government Aid in Land Settlement

Helping Men Own Farms; A Practical Discussion of Government Aid in Land Settlement

Mead, Elwood

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1150348585
ISBN13: 9781150348587
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.12 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1920. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III AUSTRALIA'S INFLUENCE ON THE LAND POLICY OF CALIFORNIA The experiment in planned rural development by California, made in advance of other states and when but little attention had been given to the subject in this country, was in part due to the influence on public opinion of the success of similar action in Australia and New Zealand. San Francisco is the Pacific gateway to those countries. Travelers had brought reports of the benefits wrought by their social and democratic land policies. Some personal interest was created by the fact that a Californian was chairman of the commission in charge of government aided closer settlement in the irrigated area of Victoria, one of the Australian States. This action in Victoria was due to a desire to secure more satisfactory results from the state owned irrigated works on which large sums of money had been spent. The investment in these works had proved unprofitable. They had not brought the expected changes in agriculture nor an income from operation that had been anticipated. As a final expedient, all of the works had been placed under the management of a commission created for that purpose and this commission was informed that its first duty was to bring an income from the investment. A study of conditions showed that the financial 29 failure of these works was not due to engineering defects but to a land ownership that made irrigated agriculture impossible. The irrigable area was owned in large tracts and was used mainly for dry farming or for the production of crops which could be grown by the aid of rainfall alone. Few people lived on the land and little labor was required to cultivate it. The change to intensive cultivation which irrigated agriculture required, meant that estates would have to be subdiv...

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