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accept as being better suited to altered circumstances, 

 so Agriculturists beyond the seas, emulating our own, 

 have devised new and improved methods, from which 

 we ma}'^ learn. 



It has been the author's lot to see a good deal of 

 such modern methods, which are more particularly 

 interesting in that part of the subject which applies 

 to that important social and economic problem 

 interlaced with the agricultural, namely, that of 

 settling more people on the land and so increasing 

 agricultural production, while providing a larger 

 supply of labour, and creating ampler contentment, 

 happiness and prosperity. 



The subject matter having been systematically 

 divided under distinct heads, some recurrence to 

 the same practices under different aspects has proved 

 inevitable. 



H. W. W. 



January, 1918. 



