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I want to tell you they never catch me twice on the same trick, 

 and I got busy and I wrote a letter to Denmark, I wrote one to 

 Holland, one to England, one to the Isle of Jersey and one to 

 the Isle of Guernsey and the letters were all duplicates, the same 

 letter. The first question I asked was, "Please tell me the aver- 

 age cash value of land in your community. 2. Please tell me the 

 average rental value of those same lands, the cash rental value. 

 3 Please tell me what they do on these lands in order to make 

 land pay a reasonable percent upon the value, or a reasonable 

 profit over and above the rent paid." From Holland I got the 

 answer that their lands were of the average cash value of about 

 $800 per acre; that the rental values run from $10 to $20 an 

 acre, and they answered the last question by one word, "dairy- 

 ing." From Denmark the cash value was between $600 and 

 $800 — I don't blame them. Their rents from $10 to $20 an 

 acre and they answered the other question by saying that they 

 dairied and they sold pork and butter and eggs to the English, 

 and in passing let me say to you that that little country of Den- 

 mark we have never been able to wrestle from her the butter 

 and the bacon trade of the British Islands. For the past twenty 

 years Denmark had produced 25 per cent of the butter and 40 

 percent of the bacon and 25 percent of the eggs used by the 

 forty-five millions of people on the British Islands. From Eng- 

 land the answer came that their lands were of the average cash 

 value of $500 to $800, and rental value $10 to $15. The high- 

 est priced lands in England and Scotland were devoted to dairy- 

 ing and the balance to raising beef cattle and draft horses. The 

 Isle of Jersey put a value of $1,000 an acre on her land, rentals 

 run as high as $60 an acre and they said that they dairied on 

 these lands and furnished vegetables, fruit and flowers for the 

 London and Paris markets. The bunch of islands known as the 

 Channel Islands furnish London and Paris with nearly all of 

 their beautiful flowers in those two cities and also furnish very 

 much of the vegetables and fruit that they use in those two 

 cities. The Isle of Guernsey had the same average cash value 

 as the Isle of Jersey, and they also added that there was not an 

 acre of land on that island that would not sell for $500, not even 

 ^he overflow of the land from the ocean, and the rest of the 

 answers were the same as the Isle of Jersey and yet when Victor 



