In Manhattan last week Mrs. Charles Carey Rumsey, daughter of the late great Banker-Railroader Edward Henry Hardman, announced that through her Co-operative Agricultural Organization Society she was about to send 50 farm-wise metropolitan families upstate to wrest their living from the land. If the project proved successful, she had some land of her own in Virginia to colonize with other jobless.
The Michigan Department of Agriculture listened with interest to Maynard D. Smith, Detroit hotelman, as he propounded a program of agricultural colonization throughout the State on land forfeited for taxes....
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