CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



Home and Foreign Supply of Food. 



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 Functions of Government in regard to the Supply 



of Food Value of Cereal and Animal Food im- 

 ported from Abroad Rapid Rise in the Value 

 of Meat will be checked by Importations 

 from America Proportion of Home and Foreign 

 Supply of Food in this Country England 

 now chiefly dependent on Foreign Supplies for 

 further Increase Cost of Carriage equal to the 

 Rent of Land here Agricultural Statistics suffi- 

 ciently accurate for use Their main Features 

 Diminution of Corn in Ireland Present Agricul- 

 tural Prosperity of that Country Extent of the 

 various Crops and Numbers of Live Stock 

 Quantities and Value of Home and Foreign 

 Produce, respectively, consumed annually in 

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