COUNTRY LIFE
More Subsistence Production The admirable farms, gardens, crafts and industries for unemployed miners organised under the general title of " Sub- sistence production," are flourishing greatly in Monmouth- shire but they have to contend with one prime difficulty : the requisite land can only be found at a certain distance ; and transport is apt to be both slow and costly. Chiefly on this ground an extension of the idea under a rather new form is being urged, and a quarterly journal, Towards (with " the New Community " in smaller type), is being issued under " an Order of Friends, Deristone, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire." The idea is to establish communities of about two hundred and fifty families on the spot where the farm and garden work would be done. The idea (which is not unlike recent experi- ments in Palestine) is persuasively preached by Mr. Peter Scott ; but the first number of the new quarterly has also much that is interesting about the existing scheme at Brynmawr.
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