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uncertainty in the minds of the British people as to the 

 possibilities, or capabilities, of agriculture, and our 

 reason has become muddled and befogged to such an 

 extent that we are really incapable of forming sound, 

 practical, common-sense views on a subject that is, in 

 reality, simplicity itself. Once we divest our minds of all 

 this obfuscation. the cardinal fact will stand out clear and 

 sharp that, in agriculture, we have the most important 

 factor in the solution of those social and economic diffi- 

 culties which envelop, as with a dark cloud, the people of 

 this country. 



