The planters have happily discovered, that as long as they kept the cultivators of their lands in agitations and sufferings, their own interests were sacrificed.

"The Albanians in general (I do not mean the cultivators of the earth in the provinces, who have also that appellation, but the mountaineers) have a fine cast of countenance; and the most beautiful women I have ever beheld, in stature and in features, we saw levelling the road broken down by the torrents between Delvinaki and Libokavo.

The peculiar system of land-tenure in India, which secures as far as possible a bit of land for every one, tends to perpetuate this hereditary selection of trades, by enabling every cultivator to be so far independent of his handicraft, thus restricting competition.

Liberia, however, was demanding more cultivators.

This alien was empowered, and by the force of public opinion incited, to exact the greatest possible share of the tiller's produce, and, as we saw, he was entitled to the whole benefit of whatever improvements the tiller of the soil had made; and couldand constantly didexpel the cultivator who was unable or unwilling to pay a higher tax, as the penalty for improving the land.

" She cannot raise them even for the minor enterprises at Konia and Adapa, and evidently the Sawâd must draw its future cultivators from somewhere beyond the bounds of Western Asia.

He does not enter on the field to till it; he only encompasses it with fences, invites cultivators, and drives away intruders; often (fallen on evil days) he is reduced to long arguments with the passers-by to prove that it is a field, that this so highly-prized domain of his is, in truth, soil and substance, not clouds and shadows.

They needed cultivators for their large farm, so instead of destroying every one with fire and sword, they spared those of the weak inhabitants of the land who had survived the first onslaught, in order that they might make use of farmers to cultivate their new possessions.

Equally important is it to provide at home a market for our raw materials, as by extending the competition it will enhance the price and protect the cultivator against the casualties incident to foreign markets.

And little by little, as they realised that the new order was sure and that their ancient oppressors were quite dead, there returned not only cultivators, craftsmen, and artisans, but outlandish men of war, scarred with old wounds and the generous dimples that the Martini-Henry bullet used to dealfighting men on the lookout for new employ.

The local superintendent regulates the amount allowed each cultivator, according to the crops he has planted.

He can get through any law ever made if there's five piastres on the other side of it.' 'Maybe; but was the Agricultural Bank selling the cultivators up too much?' 'Not in the least.

"If any should ask the aged cultivator for whom he plants, let him not hesitate to make this reply,'For the immortal gods, who, as they willed me to inherit these possessions from my forefathers, so would have me hand them on to those that shall come after'".

The very guards told off to defend cultivators and travellers took part most shamefully in harassing and despoiling them.