96 THE FUTURE OF OUR AGRICULTURE. 



To this must be added the certainty of having a full 

 reward for outlay and effort to the tiller of the soil— even 

 while the desired unification of interest remains in abey- 

 ance — as a stimulus to enterprise, such as under present 

 conditions is not assured to him. 



And, however slow may be the desired transformation 

 of Agriculture into a single-interest Industry, judged from 

 a national point of view, Agriculture wants a substantial 

 multiplication of small farming enterprises, to bring the 

 land under more intensive, more minutely prosecuted culti- 

 vation, while at the same time providing a useful outlet 

 for population and support to the supply of Labour, a more 

 fully populated and more prosperous and happier country- 

 side. 



All these things are virtually on Sir J. Caird's lines, 

 when seeking for "A Substitute for Protection," and promise 

 — as results elsewhere have shown — to prove infinitely more 

 effective than even the heaviest bounty upon corn or any 

 other venal stimulus to its production. 



In the succeeding pages a discussion of the several points 

 more in detail will be attempted. 



