68 THREE ACRES AND LIBERTY 



and live well, if he could get the land, and would work it as 

 it should be worked. 



"Farmers and landowners grumble because the land does 

 not pay. Now for the fault. It is quite evident it is not the 

 land, therefore, it must be the fault of the man. Very well, 

 get the land from these landed proprietors, by sale preferred, 

 and let it out to men, not by 1000 acres, as no man can farm 

 well a thousand acres in England ; let the farms be greatly 

 reduced, and then the land can be treated as it should be. 

 Most of us have children, and we all know how we love and 

 treat them. Treat the land in the same manner, feed it, 

 and keep it clean, and you will have no cause to complain. 

 The land of old England is as good as it ever was. 



"I have serious thoughts of opening a kind of school for 

 people who would like to make $500 a year off an acre. It 

 is to be done, and done easily. I do know that one man 

 alone can manage two acres, and at the end of this year I 

 shall be able to tell how much more he can manage alone, 

 so under my system one can gain 4 a week off two acres 

 and do all one's self. 



"If the land will produce over one hundred pounds per 

 year per acre, is it not wrong for a man to have, say, 500 or 

 1000 acres which in no way can he properly manage ; as, in 

 the first place, he cannot feed such an acreage, let alone keep 

 it clean and gather in his crops ? " 



In truth, what an acre may produce depends on time, 

 place, and circumstance. The product of the best acre of 

 land so situated that its product could be sold at retail in a 

 near-by market, and which has been cultivated under the 

 best management for a term of years, would provide a very 

 comfortable living. The product of other acres, measured 

 by what they produce to the cultivator in living, declines 



