Fortunes for Farmers 



he must have — or, its equivalent, credit — and 

 we want some method by which farmers of 

 approved character and reasonable assets can 

 obtain the same, and intensify their culture. 



If he is a public benefactor who makes two 

 blades of grass grow where one grew before, 

 then he who in some manner as this could secure 

 that the soil of England yielded — as well it might 

 — three times more produce than now, would 

 need no statue to his memory. It would abide 

 securely for ever. 



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