In his interesting book published seventeen years ago, Mr. Robertson Scott called us "Free farmers in a Free State." This characterisation of our farmers is still absolutely correct. As to the land, in more than half of the country, from day to day, from year to year, from century to century, our farmers have had of course to fight aginst water. Nearly 35 per cent of the surface of our country is alluvial. This explains the great ertility.
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