Fortunes for Farmers 



can now see, supply will keep pace with demand. 

 It was not so fifty years ago, when the wave of 

 emigration swept America and settled its fertile 

 prairies. Thousands became free landowners, 

 and farmed so cheaply on that wonderful soil 

 that nothing could withstand them, but nowadays 

 new land is not so readily obtainable. Settlers 

 are assisted, but capitalists and railways hold the 

 reins, and the accretion of value brought by the 

 opening of new land goes into their pockets. 

 The pioneer thrives, but not so greatly that he 

 can dump our markets. For this reason there 

 will be no recurrence of the American bogey 

 for Farmer Bull. 



The world trend is for new countries to be 

 farmed on a large scale, with mammoth fields, 

 buildings, and machinery; raising in huge quan- 

 tities standard commodities as wheat, oats, 

 barley, tobacco, sugar, tea, rubber, and rice, 

 and sending them over the whole planet. Western 

 Europe cannot hope to compete here, and 

 England's prosperity depends on how swiftly 

 we follow the lead of Denmark and France, split 

 up our large farms and take to intensive culture. 

 Wherever the land is suitable there must be a 

 numerous population, producing potatoes, cab- 

 bages, carrots, fruit, flowers, honey, poultry, 

 eggs, and butter as to-day in a large part of 



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