The story of the world a thousand years hence

V CO-OPERATIVE FARMS

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THIS large Co-operative Farm (see page 21) on which a group of 500 or more intelligent men, women and children live and work and play as equal partners is four miles square and contains about 10,000 acres of fine land.

The big Farm is crossed in the center by firmly paved boulevards. The white strips on both sides of the boulevards are each a 1,000 feet wide for garden, orchard, nut-bearing forest, vine-clad trees and many other useful and artistic things. There is also a very large greenhouse covering acres of fertile land with non-breakable glass. This extensive greenhouse, with its beautiful flowers, rich vegetables and luscious fruit, keeps the summer right near the home, no matter how the snow flies and the wind blows outside.

At the boulevard crossing in the center of the big Farm are the four large buildings: The Co-operative Mansion, in which the 500 or more Co-operators live. The Model Factory in which they do their manufacturing. The Universal Warehouse, in which they store their accumulated wealth of farm, garden, factory, orchard, greenhouse, etc. The Hydro-Electric Power Station with which they generate cheap electricity for heating, lighting, cooking, welding, 24running the factory, automobiles, trucks, tractors, ships and airplanes.

As we shall see in future paragraphs, in the not distant future, it is almost certain that we shall discover how to generate abundant electricity automatically without the use of animal, fuel or water powers by the direct solar energy constantly streaming in vast quantities from the Sun to the Earth.

25CO-OPERATIVE MANSION

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A picture of a large residential building, a hollow square when seen from above. It is six stories tall and each side has three exits to the outside and two to the inside.

This Co-operative Mansion is built on a new style of architecture. It is 400 feet square on the outside and has a 300-foot open court in the center, which makes every room a front room having large outside windows. In the winter, it is heated with electricity. In the summer it is mechanically cooled and every department is thoroughly ventilated, night and day, winter and summer.