CHAPTER XI 
AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS 
The three prime questions that most would-be 
settlers have to ask consist of: What of the climate ? 
What of the sport ? What of the possibilities of 
making money? It is here that we would deal briefly 
with the last question. Up to the last three or four 
years, it was necessary to merge the direct answer in a 
golden mist of future speculation. A great many 
projects looked favourable, and there were endless pos¬ 
sibilities about others; but of a probable fortune and an 
assured income there was no certainty, the truth being 
that there was no great amount of capital invested 
in the Protectorate, and very little produce was being 
grown and exported. As a consequence, every man 
lived on his neighbour, and it tended rather to take the 
gloss off a successful sale or deal to feel that it was 
done at the expense of a personal friend or perhaps 
rather one who should have been of that category. 
Luckily, in the last few years this has all been 
changed. Capital is flowing in, and, better still, 
exports are flowing out. Land is going up every day 
and has now an actual and negotiable value, and not 
one existing solely in the mind of the proprietor. It 
is nowadays possible to say to the intending settler : 
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