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With reasonable prudence and skill, they might hope to realize at least double as much as could be expected from an investment of the same amount of capital in farming at the North.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid suggests that with careful management, investors in Southern agriculture could expect better returns than in Northern farming.
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