50 ACniCULTITvE AND TAPJFF T{EFOP»M. 



(12). " I liave never been one who believed that 



tlie repeal of the Corn Laws would throw an acre 



of ground out of cultivation." 



Note. — We grow 1,853,1.1^0 acres less of wheat to-day 

 than in 1S66, when the first official figures were pub- 

 lished, and there has been an increase of 5,785,681 acres 

 of permanent pasture in the same period. 



(13). " Our object is not to diminish the labour 

 in agricultural districts, but I verily believe that 

 if the principles of free trade are fairly carried 

 out they will give just as much stimulus to the 

 demand for labour in the agriculcural as in the 

 manufacturing districts." 



Note. — The very reverse has been the case, as everyone 

 knows. There are 016,S.\7 less farmers and labourers, as 

 already stated. 



(14). " Though our agriculturists have much to 

 learn, they are doubtless very much in advance 

 of most of the agriculturists in other countries." 



Note. — Tliis is an admittance u-hich should be remem- 

 hered by those ulio to-day say that the fanner alicaya 

 was and ahoays is behind others in the business of his 

 calling. As a matter of fact he grows more corn per 

 acre than any other farmer in the world, and his live 

 stock is considerably better cdso. 



Speech, Februahy 8tii, 1844 (Loxdox). 



(15). "All we ask is that corn, &c., shall find 

 its natural level in the markets of the world." 



Note. — But liow can the British fanners' corn, meat, 

 &e., find their natural levels when we let in the 

 foreigners' stuff free, and when the foreigner taxes 

 everything ivc send to hinif ■ 



