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The meat products stand at their relative cost of production, which 

 exceeds the sale prices, as evidenced in the diagrams, and thus 

 proving the Scotch adage, " To grow corn you must produce meat," 

 notwithstanding the market prices may not realise the cost of produc- 

 tion ; the local average market prices, however, evidence profit. The 

 results evidenced in Schedule B may therefore he taken as the key to 

 future progress in agriculture in this country. 



Diagram C gives the criterion of yields or produce aimed at in the 

 Wilton House Home Farm scheme for increased production; and had 

 the farm accounts been continued, there were reasonable indications of 

 the fulfilment of the object in view, as by it a lessened cost of the 

 meat products was to be anticipated. 



Diagram D shows the average gazetted prices for cereals in the years 

 1883-4-5, and also the like average prices for meat products in Smith- 

 field Market, as quoted in the Royal Agricultural Journal for the same 

 period. 



D I denotes the same as D in cereals ; but in meat products is an 

 estimate of the prices realised in local markets, in order that it may be 

 compared with A, which shows local prices realised by Wilton House 

 Home Farm between 1850 and 1873. 



