ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses exclusively to the farm, hamlet and village and describes the position of the farmstead as given and known: likewise, the position of the hamlet or village, since this comprises a large number of farmsteads. It examines the proposition that human labour is scarce, and that human energies may be bent upon several alternative ends. There are two important ways in which the adjustment to distance may take place: the same products may be enter-prised less intensively, or there may be a substitution of products towards those which are less demanding of labour. The location of the small amount of irrigated and citrus lands is determined by the very limited area which is suitable. Policy in the U.S.S.R. has tended in the same direction, though the disadvantageous economic consequences have been realized and some move made to mitigate the extreme ill-effects.
