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increase, after paying for everything consumed, 

 remains as the profit earned by the undertaking. 



The workman in the factory or mill really 

 does much more than support himself and his 

 family, but the workman in fertile soils and good 

 climates, where land is cheap and markets not 

 too distant, can do more still. Growers of 

 wheat working in co-operation and using modern 

 machinery to the fullest extent can each, under 

 favourable circumstances of soil and weather, 

 easily raise in one year forty thousand pounds 

 weight of good wheat, or enough food for one 

 hundred persons of all ages for a year. The 

 same men could also attend to live stock, and 

 thus actually feed far more than one hundred 

 persons a head. Growers of potatoes, owing to 

 the fact that far more labour is required for that 

 crop than for grain crops, could not feed nearly 

 so many people per head of workmen. 



If, then, capital rapidly increases when it is 

 employed in converting raw material, or by the 

 farmer in raising crops and live stock, it might 

 be supposed it would always be so employed. 

 But it is not, some being employed otherwise, 

 and some misemployed. The capital said to be 

 employed otherwise goes abroad in the case of 

 Great Britain, 



In two ways capital goes abroad, for which it 

 is not possible to give figures ; therefore, as 

 regards these two ways, it can only be said 

 that the capital taken out of the country by 

 emigrants is partly balanced by that brought 

 into the country by foreign workmen, and that 



