" Country Life
NORFOLK FARMS.
A traveller who has recently completed a farming tour round the world—he had special missions in Canada, North and South America, all provinces of Australia and Borneo— has come home with the conviction, so he tells me, that England offers the farmer a much better chance than any region on the globe. His chief reasons are that land is cheaper in England than elsewhere. He quotes the sale of land at £100 an acre in Western Australia and £4 an acre in Norfolk, and the markets both nearer and better. Not on the Darling Downs or in the wheat belt of Western Australia, on the Prairie Province of Canada, much less in either the North or South Island of New Zealand, can you find bargains comparable with those in England. I am sure he is right, and will quote in support some personal experiences.
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