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ments on the island of Delft, off Ceylon. " My 

 pony, 'The Birdcatcher ' (14.2)," he goes on 

 to say, tl which once had a great reputation in 

 Haputale, was a Delft pony. He was hard to 

 beat in the matter of stamina, and there was 

 simply no tiring him. He was an Arab, and 

 as the late ' Skip ' Shelton used to say of him, 

 he was 'a perfect miniature charger.' Some- 

 thing heavier and more of a weight-carrier 

 could doubtless be bred." 



Meanwhile, the advice we give in this book, 

 when urging estate owners and land pro- 

 prietors to take up cattle-breeding, sheep- 

 farming, and hog-raising, so far as their means 

 will allow, has been given none too soon. On 

 every side we are constantly hearing complaints 

 of the shortage of food supplies, particularly 

 of meat. Berlin had what almost amounted 

 to a riot, owing to the high prices demanded ; 

 whilst even Switzerland, we believe, is, or was, 

 importing Argentine cattle. In the United 

 States, here in England, and elsewhere, the 

 rise in the cost of meat and other food-stuffs 

 is eating a big hole in the increased wages of 

 the public ; so much so that much as wage- 

 payers are already complaining, it seems un- 

 likely that the present level of wages has 

 anything like touched its highest. All this 

 naturally affects the cost of machinery and 

 manufactured goods sent by the meat-buying 

 countries to the Tropics. If, therefore, estate 

 owners can see their way to increase the 



