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The group is wholly unfamiliar with local agriculture and few of them have any farming experience at all. In addition they hev? chosen land off which no one has been able to make any sort of living for many decades. Prevailing wages in this section of Baldwin County are extremely low.
Yet the settlers who arrived here today appear to be of considerable intelligence and good will. They are sensitive to cultural differences in the South and Midwest and seem determined to adapt themselves to their new environment. And they are especially determined to make apractical working test of the doctrines of Henry George.