CHAPTER V. 



LANDOWNER, FARMER, AND LABOURER, 

 The land- The landowners are the capitalists to whom 



owners ; 



their the land belongs. Their property comprises the 



position, 



duties, and soil and all that is beneath it, and the buildings 



influence : 



and other permanent works upon it, required for 

 the accommodation of the people, and of the 

 working stock employed in its cultivation. 

 Thus, where the land itself may be worth ^35 

 an acre, the buildings, roads, fences, and drain- 

 age may have cost the landowners ^15 an acre 

 more. The landowner has thus two capitals in 

 the land, one of which is permanent and 

 growing rapidly in value with the prosperity 'l>f 

 the countiy, the other liable to decay and 

 occasioning cost in repair. In nearly all per- 

 manent improvements arising from the progress 

 of agriculture he is also expected to share the 

 cost. And he is necessarily concerned in the 



