Country Life
A FAMOUS FARMER.
" Todgers's can do it when it likes "—and if anyone wishes to see how productive English farming may be at its best he should visit the land that encloses the Wash on the west and north. It is a liberal education to see it as I saw it last week. A word about the farmers and the small-holders before coming to the farms and multiplying holdings. The land is full of ex-labourers who have made their little piles. The richest man in the countryside started life as a not very successful small-holder, and he is not the only farmer to have accumu- lated a great fortune out of the land. Some of it was bravely taken when more than half derelict and turned into a gold- mine, from which money is still minted in good quantity. Full of years and honour, some of these men deserve national gratitude, which they would doubtless get if they were urban not rural workers.
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