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an acre apiece. The largest estate is held by the Duke and 

 Duchess of Sutherland, and amounts to 1,326,000 acres. 

 With such a distribution of property, and with a poor law 

 costing thirty-five million dollars annually, what outlook is 

 there for the English farmer? What hope of ever acquiring 

 possession of the little plot of land on which he works and 

 spends his days, or what motive to induce him to improve 

 property he; cannot leave to his children? A recent writer 

 puts it in a nutshell when he says: "In England the agri- 

 cultural laborers, with the lands about them all taken up and 

 so unsaleable, and with a poor law to provide for them under 

 all the calamities of life, whether brought about by mishap 

 or by their own wilful vice, have but little motive, even if 

 they had the opportunity, for saving." 





