Industrializing Estates 



This condition of things could be altered 

 if landowners as a body would make up 

 their minds to industrialize their estates as 

 landowners on the continent have done. 

 The possible income to be derived from an 

 agricultural estate is not at all understood by 

 the average run of owners. An interesting 

 book by the Duke of Bedford about a great 

 estate shows that from 20,000 acres he 

 received practically no income, and the 

 writer knows a good many large estates of 

 which the same can be said. This estate 

 was at last sold and realized a sum which 

 invested must give a considerable income. 

 Of course the land in this case was very 

 good, and had been let much below its 

 value. Good land sells well and easily. 

 With an estate of mostly poor land the 

 result would be very different, though even 

 in such a case the large landowner would 

 as a rule benefit by the sale of some of his 

 land. These uneconomic conditions cannot 

 continue, and the operation of the laws of 

 economy will probably be very much 

 hastened by the effect of the war. The 

 writer knows an estate in Denmark of 5000 



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