Present and Suggested Sources 



demonstrations would be most valuable. 

 Their book-keeping would be above reproach, 

 which is more than can be said of the book- 

 keeping of the majority of farmers, and con- 

 sequently valuable data would be obtained. 

 Though the landowner gets a very small rate 

 of interest in the form of rent on the capi- 

 tal represented by his land, the skilled and 

 trained cultivator can and does obtain any- 

 thing up to 17 per cent, on his working 

 capital, after paying rental, charge of super- 

 vision, and all other expenses. In spite of 

 this, and though many of our urban in- 

 dustries are over-capitalized to such a degree 

 that they yield a very small interest, our 

 primary industry is starved for want of the 

 necessary capital. Capital invested at home 

 is capital used to the best advantage. It is 

 safer than capital invested in a foreign country 

 with which we may one day be at war ; and 

 it is employing English labour, instead of 

 helping foreign labourers, often working at 

 a sweated wage, to compete with us in our 

 home market. 



During the past forty years the actual 

 value of our agricultural land has gone down, 



