CHAPTER XII 



THE OUTLOOK 



Agriculture is booming, foodstuffs are yearly 

 dearer, land is a marketable commodity, and 

 farmers are smiling after forty years' rest. The 

 question that confronts all who are thriving by 

 agriculture is : Will it last? 



Improved communications gave the first blow 

 to agriculture fifty years ago and nearly ruined 

 it. We have only just recovered and still yearn 

 for Protection, but not until the Millennium, or 

 the formation of a powerful Agrarian party, 

 shall we receive such attention from an ungrate- 

 ful nation, and preparing, therefore, to meet 

 the continual attacks of a whole world, we must 

 consider what we have to fear. 



There are alternate alarms of impending wheat 

 famines and world wide over-production. The 

 millions of China are to eat bread, America to 

 consume her own corn, and we are to go hungry. 

 Another day, South America and Canada are to 

 produce food so abundantly that Europe is to 

 have its meals almost for nothing. As far as we 



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