We have turned and are now heading for one of the oceans. We have
reached it and are flying along its shore. There are many people on the
beach enjoying their outing. This beach seems to be of very white sand
which looks like salt and is very beautiful. Accommodations for bathers
and outers, or what we might call picnickers are all along the shore.
These are beautifully crowned with a magnificent display of flowers of
different colors as well as different kinds of shrubs.
"We will now show you some of our planet's majestic mountains. That
which you see in the distance is snow and the temperature gets as low
as eighty degrees below zero in that region." There are many beautiful
valleys between these mountains, all very fertile.
The rural life, like that of their farmers is a settlement of a
hamlet-like nature where schools and everything are within this
settlement. Here they have all the conveniences of any large city, yet
they are not crowded. The pattern of the land in layout is a circle
formation and in each section like this, we are told, there are from
fifty to one hundred families. Each family possesses its own parcel
of land and home. The back yard, as we may say here, is the beginning
of their acreage. The acreage is uniform, consisting of what would be
twenty-five Earthly acres. By this method, the inhabitants are just as
well off as anyone in the city could be. In fact better in some cases
since they have a lot more territory on which to live.
The farm houses, as we might call them, are built around the hub of
business or where the stores and shops are that carry all their needs.
Also here are schools and places of worship as well as scientific
laboratories, plus their exchange warehouses, parks and places of
amusement. Let us give you some idea how it is built. You picture a
wagon wheel. The hub represents the business section. A short distance
from the hub is a circling row of homes of the so-called farmers. Back
of their homes toward the rim of the wheel is their land, equivalent to
twenty-five acres each. The spokes in the wheel represents a division
of land.
During the season of sowing or harvesting they work as a unit helping
one another. This sort of a layout, we are told, keeps their producing
community close together enabling the people of the community to enjoy
the things of life as the people in the city do. At the same time this
plan makes the maintenance of utilities practically nil, due to its
concentration at one point, whereas in scattered farming communities
the utilities such as these are impossible to have, and yet if had,
much time and material are wasted. On Earth it is costly.
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