FORTUNES 

 FOR FARMERS 



CHAPTER I 



THE FORTUNE 



The usual verdict is that, although farming 

 may be a good steady living, you can never 

 get rich at it. But this is a mistake, for it 

 is being done. I can lay my hands on a hundred 

 men in Lincolnshire, who began with the pro- 

 verbial farthing, and are now wealthy citizens, 

 heads of agricultural businesses or large farmers, 

 owning their broad acres. There is no need to go 

 abroad to farm. One is astonished at the young 

 men with a " bit of capital " who go to Canada, 

 Australia, or South America to grow wheat; 

 Ceylon to raise tea, or Borneo to produce rubber. 

 Why on earth cannot they stay at home? Though 

 the streets of London may not be paved with 

 gold, as we were once told, the soil of England 

 is full of money; at least that portion which lies 

 around the Wash, and it can be extracted, not 



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