‘Does Farming Pay in South Africa?’, in Does Farming Pay? (Pretoria: Office of the High Commissioner of South Africa, [early 1920s]), pp. 315–34.

Keen people, qualified educationally and financially, are settling on the land in larger numbers. A remarkable number of the public men of South Africa, as well as financiers, mine magnates, merchants, lawyers, and doctors are incidentally also farmers. On the depressing type of farm, of which we have given an outline, the farmer may have worked hard, but he could hardly have shown adaptability and initiative. Local training, preferably with a successful farmer and then in an agricultural school is advisable. South Africa is a large country, with great variety of climatic and soil conditions; and when buying land, quality of soil, rainfall, situation, length and nature of growing season, and such factors, should therefore in each locality be carefully examined. The farmer gets nothing like the harvest he calculated on, though he may have worked hard; and so far from improving his land, he has impoverished it by what fertility was withdrawn into the crop.