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Show oo PRUSSIANS RECLAIM MUCH WASTE LAND BERLIN. May 7. The Prussian diet has passed a bill for the cultivation of waste lands by tho foLmation of associations for improvement of the soil. The object is to enable more people vto live on the land and grow food. "By the constitution,' said tho premier, pre-mier, "the land owner is in duty bound to cultivate the land and if he does not he must be compelled to do so. In our impoverished condition we can not indulge in the luxury of uncultivated unculti-vated land." He estimated thai 6.250,000 acres In Prussia were convertible into arable land. A ten acre farm which beforo the war was worth 19,000 marks, now costs 120,000. The Nationalists and peoples' party wore among the many big land owners who fought the bill to the 'utmost on the ground that it interfered with the rights of ownership, but the premier bluntly told them: "The law as now enactetl Is a milder method than expropriation and the country cannot wail." oo |