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 will in Twenty Years be Forty Millions causing, 



if unchecked, a further Rise in Prices Prospect 

 of Landowner on good Land good of Tenant- 

 farmer more doubtful His Duty to protect him- 

 self by the security of a definite and lengthened 

 Term Either by Purchase of his Farm or by 

 Lease Good Understandings not likely to resist 

 the Increasing Pressure of Home and Foreign 

 Competition Facilities given to Farmers by 

 Government for Purchase in Ireland if ex- 

 tended to England and Scotland would be 

 more rapidly appropriated Somehow a Defi- 

 nite Term must be secured Time essential 

 in the Operations of Agriculture Earl of 

 Leicester's Lease an Admirable Example in its 

 Principal Features which admit of Freedom of 

 Management, and provide for Renewal without 

 Exposure to Undue Competition The Labourer, 

 his Work lightened, and Intelligence stimulated, 

 by extended use of Machinery Cheap Means 

 of Transit, and High Wages of Colonies make 

 him more independent His Political Position 

 likely soon to be improved 142 156 



CHAPTER XII. 



Agricultural Prospects. 



The Bad Harvest of 1879 Great Agricultural De- 

 pressionEstimated Loss sustained by British 



