CHAPTER IX.
VISIT TO A THREE-THOUSAND-ACRE FARM--SAMUEL JONAS--HIS AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS, THEIR EXTENT, SUCCESS, AND GENERAL ECONOMY.
The rain having ceased, I resumed my walk, in a southerly direction, to Chrishall Grange, the residence of Samuel Jonas, who may be called the largest farmer in England; not, perhaps, in extent of territory occupied, but in the productive capacity of the land cultivated, and in the values realised from it.

It is about four miles east of Royston, bordering on the three counties of Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, and Essex, though lying mainly in the latter.

It contains upwards of 3,000 acres, and nearly every one of them is arable, and under active cultivation.

It consists of five farms, belonging to four different landlords; still they are so contiguous and coherent that they form substantially one great block.

No one could be more deeply impressed with the magnitude of such an establishment, and of the operations it involves, than a New England farmer.