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meet the exigencies or conditions of the climate, will 

 become known. The bean, the vetch, the melilot, the 

 turnip, beetroot, carrot and cabbage, the sargo and 

 bromus, &c. &c. may all be found desirable. 



On all farms, too, where animals are not kept, there 

 must necessarily be much waste. Much that is grown 

 may not be marketable, owing to injury from weather, and 

 other causes and contingencies which every farmer is 

 subject to, or which arise out of the nature of the crops 

 themselves. All this can be utilised when there is stock, 

 so that no part of the farmer's labour is lost to him. 



These things, in fact, constitute the economics arising out 

 of ' mutual aid' and ' mutual dependence,' which lead to, 

 and determine, in their completeness, the maximum good 

 in all rural concerns and all nature. 



As we have to bring animals to the tillage farms in the 

 chacra radius, to effect their rapid extension and increase, 

 and perpetuate their productiveness and value, so we must 

 carry agriculture to our sheep-farms, and to the cattle 

 establishments also, on which the owners rear high-caste 

 cattle. 



On the sheep-farms it is already a crying necessity 

 everywhere, and propably this is the most urgent and 

 important call and necessity for that union of the pastoral 

 and agricultural which I have indicated as the life-blood 

 of a nation's prosperity. 



VIII. 



It has been demonstrated, and the fact is patent, that 

 no material progression can be looked for, in either sheep 

 or cattle-breeding, without the aid of more nourishing 

 food, and a more constant supply of it than is provided 



