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If merely for the sake of argument we assume the 

 cost of production of winter greens to be 10s. per ton, 

 Ration F is far more economical than Ration E. At 

 the price mentioned the cost of feeding Ration F for 

 twelve weeks would be £4 Is. 6d., leaving a net profit 

 of (the manure produced being set against the cost 

 of attendance) £3 lis. per beast. Similar calculations 

 are possible regarding the comparative cost of beef pro- 

 duction, when Continuous Cropping rations, other 

 than the one under discussion, are used, as also may 

 calculations in connection with the production of 

 mutton and pork. 



AGRICULTURAL AND NATIONAL ECONOMY 



Space does not permit of the giving of further in- 

 stances of the application of the comparative principle 

 of blending Continuous Cropping rations. With the 

 examples already supplied, and with the assistance of 

 the tables given, no difficulty will be experienced in 

 compounding other rations for any other class of stock. 



One feature deserving special attention in connec- 

 tion with the Continuous Cropping rations is that, 

 unlike ordinary rations, very little — in several in- 

 stances none at all — foreign feeding stuffs is used. This 

 is of importance, not only from an agricultural, but 

 from a financial and national standpoint. The econo- 

 mic war will really commence one day in these coun- 

 tries when peace is declared, and the generation whose 

 chief concern will be the patching-up of the Nation's 

 wounds, will give the matter of the importation of 

 foreign food and the exportation of Rritish capital far 

 more attention than it has received in the past. At 

 present we annually import £350,000,000 worth of 

 foreign food for the feeding of ourselves and our flocks 



