CONTENTS 7 



CHAPTER VI 



DAIRY PRODUCE, PIG BREEDING, AND FEEDING-STUFFS 



PAGE 



Factory system of Butter-making common to 

 all countries engaged in export — Causes for 

 constant variations in prices of Pigs — Recent 

 rise in Butter prices — Demand for Feeding- 

 stuffs likely to increase — The waste products 

 of Breweries and Distilleries largely employed 

 as Feeding-stuffs ..... 99 



CHAPTER VII 



BRITISH AGRICULTURE 



Increased Home Production of Food-stuffs 

 urgently required — Advantages of Home 

 Farmers — Higher natural increase in Flocks 

 and Herds — Higher yield of cereals — Small 

 Holdings . . . . . . .108 



CHAPTER VIII 



CONCLUSION 



Gold and Prices — Effect of freight charges on 

 Wheat — Diversion of our Food Supplies — 

 Intensive Cultivation, Irrigation, etc., not 

 likely to be widely applied — Agriculture slow 

 of adjustment — Reasons of this — Emigration 

 of agricultural labour from United Kingdom . 117 



TABLES. 



I. — Percentages of Total Imports to U.K. from 



Various Countries, 1880 — 191 1 ... 13 



II. — Argentine Agricultural Exports ... 42 



III. — Australian Statistics showing Agricultural 



Production . . . . . . si 



