208 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



harvest to earn the much-needed ready money 

 to pay for food and fuel during the winter 

 months. That is to say, they leave their little 

 farms at the very time that their labour is 

 most needed, the time for harvesting their 

 own potatoes, their own hay, and their own 

 oats. Whilst this denudation of labourers 

 proceeds on Irish farms, agriculture must 

 always remain at a low ebb. 



