A Scottish Member of Parliament, who has interested himself especially
in farming policy, offered to bet me— and he has frequently made the offer to others—that I could not find a single parish in the country which did not possess one successful farmer at least. It is perfectly true that alongside the grumblers, alongside fields that have gone back to prairie, alongside vanishing allotments and dwindling villages, exist farms that show a dividend. Two quite successful farms co-existed with' the most lamentable examples of farming I ever saw during this recent visit to familiar scenes ; one a general farm, the other a dairy farm. Though perhaps a part of the profit is contributed, so to say, by the loss of the landlord, the farmers must be quoted as successful cultivators ; and they deserve their success, if any worker deserves it. Only a courageous man would undertake their task. * * * *
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