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The swamp lands of the south are particularly suited to the growth 

 of culinary vegetables, and it cannot be very long before the value 

 of these lands is appreciated, and the monopoly of vegetable 

 growing is wrested from the hands of the patient but somewhat 

 objectionable Mongolian. I have never been able to understand 

 why the Chinese in Australia should be allowed to retain the 



practical monopoly of vegetable growing. Their intelligence is 

 not so great as that of the Caucasian ; their methods are pre- 

 adamite ; and their labor, though apparently cheap, is more costly 

 in the end than that of the white man. The truck farmers of the 

 south-eastern states of America are all white men and have driven 



