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to point out how necessary it is, in their interests, to bring 

 ahout certain reforms in the agricultural system of the country 

 which would render them less liable to, if not immune from, 

 those dire results which would indubitably follow the opera- 

 tions of unscrupulous speculators in food stuffs, once we were 

 at war with a foreign State. 



The nature of these reforms will be explained in the 

 succeeding chapter. 



