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conditions, and, while maintaining their indi- 

 vidual entity, have afterwards combined with 

 other similar bodies to form district, county, or 

 even national federations for the attainment of 

 common advantages. 



The direct results of these new conditions have 

 been to cheapen and to increase production in 

 the countries concerned ; to facilitate, and there- 

 fore to economise, the despatch of the greater 

 quantities of produce available for export ; and 

 to so far improve the general position of the 

 foreign producers that while Great Britain — the 

 land whose agriculturists have been the slowest 

 of any in resorting to all this organized effort — 

 is still in the throes of agricultural depression, 

 other countries which have reorganized their 

 methods are proclaiming that the trials they also 

 have had to experience have now, more or less, 

 been surmounted. Further than this, not only 

 are the said countries gaining or regaining agri- 

 cultural prosperity, but it is to England — back- 

 ward as she is in all the things which have 

 brought them success — that they would seem to 

 be looking, with one common accord, as a 

 purchaser of produce from their own super- 

 abundance. 



It is foreign to my purpose here to enter in 

 any degree whatever into the controversy on 



