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lack of horse manure a disadvantage which 

 will go on increasing with the spread of 

 motor cars is felt in France as well. This is 

 why the French growers are eagerly experi- 

 menting with the direct heating of the soil 

 with thermosiphons. 



Let me add to these remarks that a decided 

 awakening is to be noticed in this country for 

 making a better use of the land than has been 

 made for the last fifty years. There are a few 

 counties where the County Councils, and still 

 more so, the Parish Councils, are doing their 

 best to break at last the land monopoly, and to 

 permit those small farmers who intend to 

 cultivate the soil to do so. Here and there 

 we see a few timid attempts at imparting to 

 the farmers and their children some knowledge 

 of agriculture and horticulture. But all this 

 is being made on too small a scale, and without 

 a sincere desire to learn from other European 

 nations, and still more so from the United 

 States and Canada, what is being done in 

 these countries to give to agriculture the new 

 character of intensive culture combined with 

 industry, which is imposed upon it by the 

 recent progress of civilisation. 



The various data which have been brought 

 together on the preceding pages make short 



