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classes of produce. However, changes of this kind are difficult to 

 carry out rapidly, owing to the extent to which mining and manu- 

 facturing industries are followed in various parts of the Empire, 

 but they will be assisted by the fact that emigrants from the British 

 Isles will be attracted mainly to the British Dominions in the future 

 rather than to foreign countries. 



There may be some appreciable increase in the net agricultural 

 output of the United Kingdom in the future, but this can be 

 achieved only by the employment of greater numbers of agricul- 

 tural workers. This would tend in consequence to deprive the 

 Dominions in some measure of the additional population in the 

 form of immigrants, which they urgently require for the propel 

 development of their agricultural resources. However, if prices 

 for agricultural produce remain at a high level compared with those 

 of other goods for some time in the future, population within the 

 Empire will be attracted to a greater extent than in the past to 

 agriculture. As the Empire possesses greater undeveloped tem- 

 perate agricultural resources in proportion to its white population 

 than most other political divisions in the world, it would have a 

 competitive advantage in supplying its own markets with food- 

 stuffs under these conditions ; and it would have special advantages 

 in resources, both temperate and tropical, for remedying to some 

 extent its deficiency in animal foodstuffs, during the time of world- 

 shortage of these products that is to be anticipated in the near 

 future. 



