150 



PRODUCTION 



sive forms of animal industries. Though the various states do 

 not thereby become direct shareholders in agriculture, they never- 

 theless reap indirectly an ample reward in the increased prosperit 

 of that industry which is the leading one in all countries. 1 



1 Even in the United Kingdom the Census of Production of 1907 shows 

 that the net output of the agricultural industry is greater than that of any 

 other single group of industries. See Oxford Survey of the British Empire, 

 Vol. I., p. 221. 



