Fortunes for Farmers 



our farmers, these Continentals achieve astonish- 

 ing results. Their soil is poorer, their labour as 

 costly, their produce fetches no more than ours, 

 rents are higher, but the profits per acre are much 

 greater. Mr Haggard instances farms where he 

 has been into the accounts and found them 

 paying a net profit of £3 per acre, and this on 

 enormous holdings — one farmer making £20,000 

 a year, whilst the average yield in Belgium is 

 more than twice ours. 



So long as Britain withholds the shield of 

 Protection from her farmers, we are open any 

 moment to danger from the whole world,and may be 

 again — as a generation ago — -ruined by the Argen- 

 tine, Canada, Siberia, Brazil, Australia or China. 

 We stand exposed to every chance, so it behoves 

 to prepare for the worst and educate our sons 

 to hold their own with any farmers in the world. 



If we are to meet them on common ground in 

 fair fight we must be as well armed as they, and 

 the only armour of avail is that of education. 



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