FARMING PROSPECTS AT HOME.
We (" Daily Times ") have been favored with the following extraots from a letter of an Bast Lothian farmer of standing, dated March 22nd, 1881: —" In faot, land seems to be cheaper to buy by tho acre in England than with you. Mr Long, of the Dundee Advertiser, stated at a meeting lately that he knew of an estate in Berkshire, of 1830 acres, with a good houoo and eight cottages, which had been offered for £6700, and failed to meet with a buyer. . . As you will have seen by the papers, we have had a fearful winter, such a one us I have no recolleotion of passing through before. We begon curling ou November 21st, and carried it on, with slight breaks, till March 6th. Yesterday and to-day we have a new snowstorm, and as almost all the land is still to plough for seed, you may fancy the baokword state we are in. Farms are being thrown up in many cases, and large reductions of rent have been given on some estates to save the olternative of bankrupt tenants. For my part I take gloomy views indeed of farming prospects in this country, and doubt if land is now worth any rent at all. One English laird I was told of, on flood authority, who owns thirty farms, has had them all thrown on his hands together, and be has nut a halfpenny to stock them himself."
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2258, 24 May 1881, Page 3
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