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tubercular, let us get rid of it as a magnificent 

 milker! If a horse kicks like the devil, let 

 us hide this fact and send it to a sale ! If the 

 gooseberries are affected with mildew, let us 

 hope no inspector will visit us ! If a plum- 

 tree has silver-leaf, let us cut it down and say 

 nothing about it, and so on. 



On the other hand, on a large farm where 

 all are copartners working in the interest of 

 the whole community, every effort will be 

 made to keep up a high standard of pro- 

 duction ; for it will be in the interest of every- 

 body to eliminate all the sorry cattle and the 

 unclean stocks of fruit, to rear the finest live 

 stock possible, and to possess the cleanest 

 trees. Just as the workers would be keen to 

 detect a "rogue" or a "sport" and weed it 

 out, so they would anticipate with pleasure the 

 visit of an expert, who came to tell them the 

 good news of some discovery made in subduing 

 diseases, of experiments made with better seed, 

 and to introduce the strain of a higher class of 

 stock, or some new fertiliser, or leisure-giving 

 machinery, or to suggest better methods of 

 transport. 



