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external, should be carried out which will give to 

 agriculture reasonable security. 



We believe that by the scheme put forward 

 in these pages the efficiency of the farmer and 

 the labourer would be almost doubled. If this 

 were done, and the undue burden of rating taken 

 off agriculture, the output of that industry would 

 be increased to an enormous extent ; the drain of 

 our citizens from land to towns would be vastly 

 diminished ; a greater number of people would 

 make their homes on the soil ; and the State 

 would regain an element of stability which has 

 been lost to it for too many years. 



