In Chapter 6, the volume examines the implementation of farm colonies for the mentally disabled and ill in Britain and the justifications provided for them by Winston Churchill, G.A. Auden, and Anthony Langdon Downs as well as the members of the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded in 1905; before turning to examine domestic colonies in Canada, and their defenders including Tommy Douglas, Frank Hodgins, Helen MacMurchy, William Penfield, along with members of multiple Royal Commissions and Mental Hygiene committees. Like America, the farm colony was proposed as preferable to the asylum both therapeutically and financially. Even more than the labour colony, the economic benefits of the farm colony were emphasized, as members of the colony produced agricultural goods and subsidized the costs of their own maintenance, thus reducing what was seen as a growing burden on states of institutional care.
