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Australia, India, or Egypt, because it is grown on 

 relatively cheaper land land which is at present much 

 cheaper than that in the " Corn Belt" of the United 

 States of America. Land in India and Australia suitable 

 'for maize growing is too valuable, because it can produce 

 other and more expensive crops, which we cannot produce 

 profitably on our maize lands. 



Need for More Farmers. The land is crying out for 

 men capable, trained farmers with 1,000 to 1,500 

 capital. Opposition to immigration is passing away. At 

 the Transvaal Agricultural Union Congress, a resolution 

 favouring immigration was passed on the evening of 

 April 2, 1914, the first time in the history of the Union 

 that such a resolution could be passed, though frequently 

 tried. We need good formers of the yeoman type from 

 England and Scotland. For the development of the Low 

 Country, where cotton, tobacco, and sugar-cane can be 

 grown, we need a few hard-working settlers from the 

 United States, accustomed to deal with malarial fever, 

 and therefore not afraid of it. 



Profits in Farming in the Transvaal. I doubt whether 

 there is at the present moment any country in the world 

 where capital put into the development of agriculture 

 can be so rapidly doubled as in the Transvaal. I know 

 a case where a young man cleared 1,500 the second 

 year of farming on the Transvaal High Veld. I know 

 other cases where farmers have bought their farms out- 

 right after paying rent for six years, and in the meantime 

 have completely fenced, camped, built farm buildings and 

 houses, and got together herds and flocks, besides plant- 

 ing shade trees, wind-breaks, and orchards, and have 

 lived plainly but comfortably on the proceeds of their 

 farms. In three such cases the men started with only 

 1,500 capital, and paid 90 per annum rent. Their crops 

 were maize (the staple), potatoes, and teff grass, and they 

 supplied milk to Johannesburg, about 100 miles distant. 



We have excellent land, as cheap for its potential value 

 as any in any other healthy part of the world; as fine a 

 climate as any in the world, where our men and our stock 

 can wo>rk on the land from one year's end to the other; 

 we have an excellent railroad service, low export rates, 



