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Excerpt from Helping Men Own Farms: A Practical Discussion of Government Aid in Land Settlement In 10917 California entered on a new policy in rural development. Under it the State is buying large tracts of unimproved land, cutting them up into small farms and farm laborers' allotments, providing roads, water supply, and other things needful to the comfort and well being of the future owners, and is then selling these farms and allotments to worthy landless people for a small sum in cash with a long time in which to pay the remainder. Each settlement has a competent director who is helping the colonists to grow better crops, to own better stock, to work together in buying and selling, and to build up a sound community life. Settlers are able to borrow money for making improvements on long time at a low rate of interest. They have the advice of the experts of the State Agricultural College in laying out and equipping their farms. In many ways the obstacles which have harassed settlers in the past have been lessened or removed; and the dream of the home seeker has been made a reality. The State entered on this task because private enterprise was not meeting the State's needs. It was not doing the things which public welfare required. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.