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unable to buy manure, or cake, or any but the poorest 

 sheep and cattle, the small yeoman could not hope to 

 compete with the large tenant farmer. On social grounds 

 the removal of small proprietors was a deplorable neces- 

 sity. But the alternative was the starvation of millions 

 of artisans. 



