Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1917 — Great English Estates. [ARTICLE]

Great English Estates.

A few illustrations of the size of some English estates are as follows: The Duke of Northumberland owned a few years since 191,481 acres; the Duke of Devonshire, 132,998; the Duke of Bedford, 87,515. Those who know nothing of the facts exclaim, “Why don’t the English people break up these big estates and give the people a chance to get land?” If this were done and tinkers, tailors and candlestick makers got to farming and treating their lands just as they liked down would go its fertility, and away forever would go the well-ordered, fertile estates that now make England famous. The English landlords as a rule take a real interest and pride In their tenants and spend money freely in providing pedigreed horses, homed cattle and sheep for the improvement of their flocks, studs and herds. —Philadelphia Ledger.