THE RURAL WORLD.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 651, 14 March 1914, Page 6

THE RURAL WORLD.

FARMING PROFITS. If some of the men engaged in money making, by investment,gwere to go to the troubln of working out the figures and the percentage of proSt on an outlay in a properly worked farm threw would be a good deal more money spread over the surface of the soil than : s, under existing gambling processes thruwn into the bowels of tb-J earth by way of some of the alleged gold mines. Figures prepared in this connection for an American paper show, that, while the return from capital invest d in the farm lands of the Republic is at the rate, over all the holdings, of over 10 per cent., the return from money capitalised in railroads is IeBS than a fourth of this. When the fact, which is easily established, is realised by men witii money not earning its living wage, there will probably be a flow of capital to the land.

AMERICAN STOCK

A report showing the value of the farm products of the United States furnishes some interesting figures. These cover the present year, as far aa it has gens, nnd give the value of the products at an aggregate of £1,750,000,000. These prodigious results of the tilling of the soil are far in excess of anything recorded in the past history of the country-, and the effect the accession to the wealth of the States is bßing felt everywhere, and indicated in the general prosperity of the Great Republic. There, aa in every other part of the civilised world, agriculture is the basis of the national wealth, and where it is prosperous the country is prosperous Every other industry benefits from a bountiful harvest, ana, when the results of the working of the f>irm are brought within the scope of actuarial investigation, it is invariably found the earnings of the money of the man on the land are greater than those of the capital invested in gold mines.