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kind, since much of the concentrated feeding rations comes to 

 us from tropical countries in whose well-being we have little 

 concern. Thus we pay money to foreign countries for material 

 which through ignorance we partially forfeit without any return 

 in fact, the lost material causes considerable pollution of our 

 country side. 



To instruct a community that is inclined to cling to existing 

 practices' and earn' conviction in the face of the national charac- 

 teristic of unbelief in scientific research requires demonstration 

 work carried out at home. It is of little use to explain the 

 methods of Germany or other countries; the public must be 

 prepared to spend money on many demonstrations carried out 

 at the very doors of our farm-houses. On the other hand, if the 

 public pays the piper, it has a right to call the tune, and to insist 

 upon the best use being made of our agricultural land. This 

 cannot be said to be done so long as more feeding-stuff than is 

 necessary is used wholesale for the production of winter beef. 



There will always be special types of farming in which the 

 making of very rich farmyard manure may be justified ; to these 

 should be left the manufacture of the very fine meat for which 

 there will always be customers ready to pay a profitable figure. 

 If in the future the over-production of the past is avoided, our 

 Christmas beef will become an ornament, instead of an encum- 

 brance, to good English farming. 



