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an experience common to ail industries " ; tliat 

 is to say, it has cliangecl from arable to pasture. 

 We are asked to be satisfied. That is tlie sugges- 

 tion, not of a wise man, but, rather, of a philo- 

 sophic pedant. When did a country remain 

 permanently prosperous either on pastoral farm- 

 ing or by commerce? Is not the cultivated land 

 the ultimate source of wealth? And why should 

 we, in this country, not make it worth the while 

 of man to cultivate the land? Is there national 

 stability in any sense in town life? Mr. 

 Armitage-Smith looks at the "money" results 

 of free imports; and that, unfortunately, is the 

 be-all and end-all of so many free import 

 thinkers and writers. But is it all? Assuredly 

 not ! 



Dealing with the British farmers' backward- 

 ness, Mr. Armitage-Smith speaks of Denmark, 

 and of the success which has attended the efforts 

 of that country in butter-making. He then 

 quotes Sir W. Windmeyer, of New South Wales, 

 to show what that State has done by co-operation 

 in butter-making; and he suggests we are 

 apparently behind them in their methods. It is 

 a pity our author did not state the whole truth 

 about this matter. We may as well do what he 

 has omitted, and do it in a very short space too. 

 The truth is that the British farmer does not go 

 in for co-operative butter-making like the farmers 

 of Denmark or of Ncav South Wales, because he 

 makes more money at the present time than the 

 farmers of either of those countries by selling 



