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attended by an increase in the numbers of people 

 " living by agriculture," as follows : 



Now all this remarkable advance within half a 

 century has been achieved deliberately by the edu- 

 cational activity in its widest sense of the State, 

 working it is true on a favourable soil — the temper of 

 a people who were rousing themselves to shake off the 

 effects of defeat. In the face of these figures, which 

 cover a period according to the records of decline 

 in British farming, will anyone be found seriously 

 to maintain that the stimulus of the State cannot 

 be applied to agriculture and that our farmers 

 know how to make the best use of the land when left 

 to themselves? 



