NOTE. 



A word or two in explanation of the title of this 

 book is perhaps necessary. Farmers who are 

 lamenting the losses and ruined crops of the 

 present disastrous year will perhaps smile bitterly 

 at a book dealing with Fortunes for Farmers. 

 The volume was, however, in the press before the 

 abnormal character of the 1912 summer had 

 become apparent, and alteration was impossible. 

 In any case, the book deals with the prospects of 

 farmers over a period of years, and neither a year 

 of disasters nor one of exceptional prosperity can 

 modify the opinion of the author on the profession 

 of farming as a whole. The English farmer has 

 a reputation for grumbling ; but no one in the 

 country knows better than he does how to accept 

 the vagaries of our English climate, or can face a 

 season's adversity with more equanimity. 



