FARMING PROGRESS.
On more than one occasion I have lamented the rapid fall in the price of land, and recorded that considerable estates in the Midlands can be bought at • £5 or £6 an acre, houses included. This month the magazine of the Country Gentleman's Association gives some most lamentable examples from the lovely and once rich county of Suffolk : " Of farms to let in Suffolk there is no end ; farms for sale are almost equally numerous, and for many not more than £10 an acre can be oldained." 'I he italics are mine. To italicize this relapse of the land is a national duty. It cannot be allowed to continue without danger to the social as well as the economic welfare of this country. It is of good omen that more of our induitrial organizers are turning their talents to the subject. A financier of my acquaintance who owns a big southern farm has four retail shops, has installed every sort of mechanical device for the sale and transport 'of his produce, and has so developed the land that the poultry alone give a turnover of over £20,000. Among other details he edits his*own fartn newspaper !
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