Paul had long ago been in a position to make
use of his right of purchase on the estate, and had acquired about
two thousand acres of adjoining marsh lands beside, though at a
considerably higher price, and was now the owner of a well-rounded
estate of twelve thousand acres, the admiration and pride of the
whole neighborhood. He had converted the cultivation of the
marshland, which six years ago had been but a bold theory, into an
established scientific fact, and his methods, the excellence of
which was amply proved by his almost tropically luxuriant harvests
and uninterruptedly increasing wealth, were assiduously imitated on
all sides. Paul Haber was acknowledged far and wide to be the first
authority on the management of marsh land. The government had long
since taken note of his success and kept an eye upon his doings, and
was furnished by the Landrath with regular accounts of his
agricultural progress. Young men of the best county families
contended for the privilege of being under him for a year's
practical farming. Foreign governments sent professors, lecturers,
and practical agriculturists to him, partly to inspect his
arrangements, partly to study his methods under his personal
supervision, in order to adopt them in their own countries.
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