“GENTLEMEN, THE FARMERS”
Let mining magnates sip their wine Ami puff their huge Havanas. Let foreign nabobs richly dine Surrounded by sultanas. Our merchant princes go their way While bankers bow before them. What shall it profit them, if they Forget the land that bore them? But he whose husbandry can make Two blades where one was growing, And from the stubborn earth can take The harvest of his sowing, Such is Hie man who shall command Our bumble emulation, Whose work has made this fertile land The birthright of n nation. Then drink a health to men of old Who farmed this land before us Through rain and drought, through beat and cold. They well deserve this chorus, South Africa breeds men of parts Its maids are lovely charmers, But the toast we give with fervent hearts „ Is —"Gentlemen « I'he Farmers. —By T. A. Robertson, managing director, Plant Production, Ltd., in "Veld,” South Africa.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 148, 18 March 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)
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155“GENTLEMEN, THE FARMERS” Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 148, 18 March 1939, Page 4 (Supplement)
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