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CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGB 



XVIII. The Home Market and the Industrial Classes 284 



XIX. Our Food Supply in the Time of War . • 3" 



XX. Fiscal Policy and Agriculture . . . 329 



XXI. Fiscal Policy and Agriculture (continued) 366 



XXII. Depopulation of Rural England . . . 379 



XXIII. Conclusion 394 



Appendix I 427 



,, n 431 



M in 437 



Index . . . . . . 445 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



A NOBLE PEASANT WOMAN 



HER BIRTHPLACE (BROADHEMBURY, DEVON) , , 



Photos copyright. 



FIRST COTTAGE BUILT ON THE ESTATE (w. J. POWELL) 

 From a photograph by Lewis, Bromsgrove. 



cottage (benjamin waldron) . 



From a photograph by Lewis, Bromsgrove. 



cottage (WILLIAM BINNER) 



From a photograph by Lewis, Bromsgrove. 



cottage (e. banner) . . ... 



From a photograph by Lewis, Bromsgrove. 

 PLAN OF holdings • . • . , 



"harvest time" , . 



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