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 G. F. KEATINGE compulsory expropriation is anthorised when th6 land can. not 1 obtained otherwise. The lemd is not ha. ded over to the pe.sants in its rough stae, bat drainage or irriga- tion works are provie.sly andert.ken. Roads are made and great care is taken to fix the area of the holdings wih regard to their productivity, and to give each holdi.g a good '' w,tiio,t scter,ng the assortment of var,on. qi:t]lty:S O[ sail '  ' ' fields. E,deavor is n,nd t.o place the homeste;ds snfiiciently far apart to give each homeste:td plenty of elbow room and t sita,te it with reference to its land so as to effect economy of time a.d labo. r, bt not so fxr apm't as tb check the developeneat of the collective spirit or of co-operative action. In gothern Germmy where tle holdings are already mmdl o.,id frag,,lentd, as noted above, t, he method l,y which the C, om- missions proceed is minly restripment, i.e., the rendj,stmeut "TIe lands acres belonging separate plots. of fr.mented holdings .into eonlmet and conveniently sithated blocks. The following examples of this work may he given: of Hohenh:d& in S.xony consisted of 1,374 to 35 proprietors. I t consisted o! 774 Restripment redneed the nnmher of plots to 60 most of which were served hy a single. central lead. l,,e .ork v.s execued .t a cost of 3,126 francs (Rs. 1,953), .e., at a cost of (abou) 2 fames (Rs. 1-9-0)er nero. By tl, e saving of area oecnp[ed by roads and fe,.ces 21 acres were gai,ed, tlat is to s.y, ,nro than the cost of tim operation. 1,1 eo,,seqaenee bf the. ro.,trip,ne.t it h. l,eon necessary to increase tto size of the harns to provide for the ]a,'ger ont. t. ar,, of the farms." I. a,otl,er ease from Ostheim, in IIsnau, i is stated': ... "After first 'ising ia revo] ,gi.s the propod readj.st- me,t of their oldlugs, stoii,g the srveyo,' ,,,d e!,rsh, g them sway, the people of thi comusuric ended hy snbmitt.[ng to the proposal, m,d ]roving seen the a,lva,,t,,ges 'hich resulted, showed thdr appreciation in the w:y that they received the tns.er for Aricnt.re. The was received bv almost ]] the aate popuhton on o.tskrts of the ville. ge, d the chief of the who four years before ml lodged the protest i Berti, dv:meed and thanked the Minister for the rediustment lands whi:h hd been carriet out oginst tt:o wi;hes og the inhabitnts stating that ttev hml not .riderstoed the mattel but now they qate apprecmted te dvntages of the operation wh;.ch the land affected." e,rried o;t under mgjority of h,d in m,nv esos trebled the v,lt, e of In the alcove cases restripme,, w tte lw upon the application of a the landholders affected, t Balletin issued by the Ministry of Agriculture i., 1@8t al quated on p.xges 355-355 of M. Jouzier's Eco,w;r:ie ruraZ.