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bered that mixed farming, the first stage of 

 intensive cultivation, means the output of a 

 mixed product, and hence the diminished 

 production of the crop formerly grown. 



CONTRAST OF FARM AND FACTORY 



Though the foregoing chapters have shown a 

 shortage of meat and to a lesser degree of dairy 

 produce, the author does not suppose that if this 

 book falls into the hands of a town dweller, he 

 would be in the slightest degree perturbed. His 

 experience is limited to town life and factory out- 

 put. Over-production is met by short time, till 

 surplus stocks have been absorbed or trade has 

 revived. Shortage is made good by increased 

 supplies of raw material and overtime. Nature 

 does not work overtime. The advice given to the 

 exuberant financier " to think slowly in millions " 

 might be paralleled by that " to think slowly in 

 agriculture." We are reminded of the story told 

 of the American visitor to Oxford, who admiring 

 the well-kept turf of the College quadrangles, and 

 intending on his return home to make his own 

 lawn as good or better, asked the gardener 

 how it was done. ' You mows it and you rolls 

 it for three hundred years and then you gets it 

 like this 'ere," was the crushing reply. 



Perhaps some of the causes underlying the 



