CONTENTS. 



PREFACE 



CHAPTER I. THE DECENTRALISATION OF INDUSTRIES 



Division of labour and integration The spread of industrial 

 skill Each nation its own producer of manufactured goods 

 The United Kingdom France Germany Russia 

 " German Competition ". 



CHAPTER II. THE DECENTRALISATION OF INDUSTRIES (continued) . 22 



Italy and Spain India Japan The United States The cotton, 

 woollen and silk trades The growing necessity for each 

 country to rely upon home-consumers. 



CHAPTER III. THE POSSIBILITIES OF AGRICULTURE ... 40 



The development of agriculture The over-population prejudice 

 Can the soil of Great Britain feed its inhabitants ? 

 British agriculture Compared with agriculture in France ; 

 in Belgium Market gardening : its achievements Is it 

 profitable to grow wheat in Great Britain ? American 

 agriculture : intensive culture in the States. 



CHAPTER IV. THE POSSIBILITIES OF AGRICULTURE (continued) . 83 



The doctrine of Malthus Progress in wheat-growing East 

 Flanders- -Jersey Potato crops, past and present Irrigation 

 Major Hallett's experiments Planted wheat. 

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