IN the economy with which it can be provided with public services, the village farm, characteristic of much of Europe, has an advantage over the isolated farm, typical of most of the United States. The farmers of central and eastern Europe commonly live in villages and go out to work in fields at some distance from the village. In the United States almost the only examples of the farm village are found in Utah. The early Mormon settlements, for purposes of protection and community co6peration, were undertaken as compact villages of farmers, whose irrigated lands were at greater or less distance from their homes in the village; and this form of farm settlement still persists. The advantages of the compact village-farm settlement in economy of public services are, in part, however, overcome by the time spent in going to and from the fields, which may be several miles from the farmstead. Where livestock are kept and sheltered at the village farmstead and driven to pasture and back each day, as is the case in some of the Mormon farm villages, the time thus spent is considerable. Between the extreme of completely dispersed farm settlement, with isolated farm dwellings, and that of the compact village type of farm settlement there is an intermediate type that approaches the village type in providing closely spaced settlement yet shares with the scattered type the advantage of having the farmstead on or near the farmed land. This is the well known type of farm settlement associated with the stripwise or long-lot division of land, to be found in much of the province of Quebec. Devised as a means of giving river frontage to a maximum number of owners, it is an equally effective means of making a'given length of road serve a large number of farms and has generally been applied to farm settlement in much of the province through the land survey. It is particularly notable in the St. Lawrence Valley and in the lowland surrounding Lake St. John.' In this system of land survey the land is first divided into mile-wide parallel strips called ranges. The ranges are in turn divided transversely into lots about one-sixth of a mile wide. The principal local roads are built on the range lines, in most instances on alternate, rather than on all, range lines. Occasional crossroads connecting the range-line roads follow some of the lot lines. Farmsteads usually front on the range-line roads, rarely on the lot-line roads. With this system of land division, a mile of road including lot-line