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ing the long winter months. This is what has 

 brought about the great development of rural 

 industries, of which we have just seen such 

 interesting examples. But this need is also 

 felt in the soft climate of the Channel Is- 

 lands, notwithstanding the extension taken by 

 horticulture under glass. " We need such 

 industries. Could you suggest us any ? " 

 wrote to me one of my correspondents in 

 Guernsey. 



But this is not yet all. Agriculture is so 

 much in need of aid from those who inhabit 

 the cities, that every summer thousands of men 

 leave their slums in the towns and go to the 

 country for the season of crops. The London 

 destitutes go in thousands to Kent and Sussex 

 as bay-makers and hop-pickers, it being esti- 

 mated that Kent alone requires 80,000 addi- 

 tional men and women for hop-picking ; whole 

 villages in France and their cottage industries 

 are abandoned in the summer, and the peasants 

 wander to the more fertile parts of the country ; 

 hundreds of thousands of human beings are 

 transported every summer to the prairies of 

 Manitoba and Dacota. Every summer many 

 thousands of Poles spread at harvest time over 

 the plains of Mecklenburg, Westphalia, and 

 even France ; and in Russia there is every 

 year an exodus of several millions of men who 



