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counties. In Cambridgeshire and Cheshire the 

 average price was 49 an acre, but the average 

 price in all other counties was exceedingly low 

 In Dorsetshire it was 14 an acre, in Cornwall 

 18, Essex 17, Warwickshire 26, Norfolk 15, 

 Suffolk 18, Bedfordshire 18, Wiltshire 22, 

 Yorkshire 21, Wales 19, etc. 



For the past sixty years commercialism has 

 ruled the economy of the nation and agriculture 

 has been treated as of no account. There is not 

 the least need for neglecting industrialism in all 

 its branches. In Germany, France, Holland and 

 other Continental countries we see commerce 

 and manufacture flourishing side by side with 

 agriculture. Germany has advanced far more 

 rapidly in these directions than has England. 



America is a great manufacturing and com- 

 mercial country, but the wealth accruing from 

 her manufactures and commerce is insignificant 

 compared with the wealth derived from her 

 agriculture. In the official American " Agri- 

 cultural Year Book " there appears the following 

 under the heading of " Agriculture as a Source 

 of National Wealth " : 



" Thus it has happened the farms of the nation have 

 been that sustaining power upon which a basic depen- 



