“...How little, it turns out, is needed to resolve the agrarian question, over which so many smart and stupid people have puzzled and are puzzled. One has only to strengthen the ownership of the allotment strips to the householder, and lush cultural flowers will bloom on these strips. Instead of stunted rye and skinny wheat, the fields will be covered with grapevines, the barley will be born on its own, and the oat stalk will grow less than two fathoms. Such is the miraculous power of property rights, this talisman, which, with a wave of the hand, transforms a neglected, wild, allotment strip into a flourishing, cultivated plot. ..."