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farmers have become demoralized, and have 

 developed into a self-satisfied class. Under that 

 system they have no incentive to make the land 

 produce to its full capacity. They pay very low 

 rents, live in comfortable houses, and attend the 

 dinners in market towns, where too often they 

 have no business to transact to say nothing 

 of the much too great partiality of many of 

 them for hunting and other sports, instead of 

 attending to their proper business. They prefer 

 grazing and dairying to farming, as they employ 

 the least amount of labour and give the least 

 trouble. They may or may not be aware that 

 far more milk is producible from cows fed from 

 the produce of arable land than from cows fed 

 on grass (to say nothing of the employment of 

 far more labour), but if they are aware of it 

 they do not act up to their knowledge, and 

 landlords allow the system to continue. 



Pig-keeping, too, is neglected, there being only 

 about 4 million pigs kept in the United King- 

 dom, as against 22 millions in Germany. At the 

 same time, we import bacon, hams and pork to 

 the value of above 22 millions sterling. The 

 Danes, who are the great competitors of the 

 English farmers, in the matter of pigs are 



