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The enlarged demand for mutton and the keener 

 enquiry for wool may reasonably be expected to induce 

 owners to subdivide their holdings on the ensuing raised 

 land values and unsatisfactoriness of rural labour. It 

 will cause others to increase their carrying capacity by 

 fencing, ploughing, grass sowing, root and fodder crop 

 growing, and generally encourage them to give more 

 care to their flocks and to provisioning for bad seasons. 

 Improvement of land in this manner may, of course, be 

 the precursor of other farming methods, but in the 

 meantime it should have the effect of increasing flocks 

 to the extent indicated. 



Improved methods of commerce and transport have 

 contributed to a higher scale of living in all civilised 

 countries, and its most striking expression will surely 

 be evidenced in a greater demand for flesh food and 

 woollen clothing, and this in spite of the present great 

 war, which is merely a contest entered into to suppress a 

 vain, decadent, and superficially-civilised people. 



