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Here a further description on freeland appears. A vast virgin land in Americas, for example, with a comfortable climate for Europeans, a good social condition and sometimes even with some financial aids by American countries, immigrants can clear any unoccupied land, pastures, farms or forest, maintaining themselves and their families. This kind of land is called "freeland of the first class," only available where the population is scarse with still little clearing done.
But Europe also has a lot of land possessed by absent landowners which are laid fallow. Only by contracting with the landowner and paying the rent anyone can cultivate freely, without affecting landowner's proceeds(see 1-2 for the definition on proceeds). This kind of land is called "freeland of the second class."
These freelands of the first or second class, still abundant in the world, are seldom good-conditioned as they need to be cleared, to be fertilized or to be irrigated, on top of some capital to be required. Gesell says it goes the same both with the employees by companies and with immigrants who borrowed money, showing his optimism that freeland is still to be increased as proved by the cases of California or Egypt where barren lands were converted into fertile farms.
(mig@lime.plala.or.jp)