‘THE FARMER HIS OWN LABOURER’ GRAPHIC 16 May 1874 Every well-wisher to his country must hope for some settlement of this unhappy dispute before all the old links are broken, and before the men whose ancestors have tilled the soil for more than a thousand years, take flight to other fields of labour, either in England or far across the sea. Meanwhile the farmers are, in many cases, as dependent on their own physical exertions as if they were in the backwoods of Canada, and our picture represents an actual incident. The master is doing his own work, his wife is bringing him his dinner, and the man who once did his ploughing and reaping looks idly on, being bound for the Land of Promise