TJie land is a vast factory in which Nature, the 

 great workman, labours with ceaseless energy both 

 day and night. 



Agriculture is the art and science of cultivating 

 the land. Land with labour working it is the sole 

 source of wealth. Everything we handle, wear, 

 eat or touch comes from the land. Factories and 

 workshops are only places where the produce of 

 the land is manipulated to make it fit for human 

 wants. If the produce of the land fails or lessens, 

 all industries fail and lessen with it. Gold, silver 

 and diamond mines as sources of wealth are 

 insignificant compared with the inexhaustible 

 riches that can be extracted from the land. 



In agricultural countries a vast and dangerous 

 proletariat such as we have is not to be found. 

 That evil omen " The Deserted Village " does 

 not exist. The comforts of life are more equally 

 diffused. Vast wealth possessed by a few persons, 

 while the mass of the people are steeped in want 

 and destitution, are conditions of society unknown 

 in countries where agriculture is tJie chief occupa- 

 tion. 



