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Freedom from feudal dues did not necessarily give farmers freedom to manage their land. In this 1873 review of Karl Peyrer’s study, attributed to Carl Menger and signed “—r.”, scattered plots and overlapping grazing and woodland rights become a test of what voluntary agreement can accomplish. The reviewer argues that private exchanges may prove inadequate, while dividing common land can actually multiply fragmentation. His case for compulsory state action rests on a concrete tension: coordinated intervention may be needed to make independent cultivation possible. Yet consolidation is not treated as an indiscriminate remedy; vineyards and gardens have different requirements from other farmland. The review offers a precise encounter with agrarian reform as a problem of cultivation, property rights, and practical administration rather than legislation alone.