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fectly clear the student — young or old, 

 learned or unlearned — will assuredly be 

 confused and discouraged. Moreover, 

 our remarks relate to bare virgin land — 

 that is new prairie or veld — and not to 

 old farms having houses, buildings, 

 kraals, fences, etc. It would be a most 

 interesting problem in agricultural eco- 

 nomics to try and calculate how much 

 might have been saved both to the purse 

 of private parties and to the Treasuries 

 of all countries if land valuators had 

 known the principles of selection and 

 had worked with a score-card. I am 

 creditably informed that one farm in the 

 Transvaal was valued at over $200,000 

 (£40,000) and soon after sold for $30,- 

 000 (£6,000) , and this was not a case of 

 severe depreciation in the land itself or 

 the* non-discovery of gold or diamonds. 



Let us now take our first principle, 

 namely, locality. Under this head fall 

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