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M. de Molinari is a Belgian, and a political economist, 

 familiar with the subject, and a man of influence and 

 weight in France, a thoroughly sound authority on 

 such a question, and plainly disinterested. After 

 carefully seeing the land here, he states without hesi- 

 tation that it is let at -half the rent similar land would 

 let for in Belgium. This quite agrees with my own 

 experience. As I said in a former paper, for many 

 years I have made double the rent that used to be 

 paid by tenants on 1000 acres in my own hands. 



If the drawbacks and greater expenses there must 

 always be in a gentleman's farming are fairly taken 

 into account, it is certain this 1000 acres is honestly 

 worth double the rent the tenants used to pay for it, 

 thus corroborating M. de Molinari's opinion. Again 

 and again, when an exhausted farm has been given 

 up, I have put as many cows on it as the broken 

 tenant had. It has paid me a net profit of double the 

 former rent. This was before I had time to manure 

 and improve the land. In all the years I have lived 

 here I never once had a farm in fair condition given 

 up to me. 



At a Land meeting near me lately, though the 

 object was to attack others, I received the larger 

 share of the abuse. As they had not a word to say 

 of any tenant being ill-used, they said, as they came 

 they saw on both sides of my property many gables 

 of ruined houses, but on my land they could not see 

 one. They were sure I had turned out many tenants 



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