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world's meat supply, they will not only benefit 

 the public generally, but, by lowering the cost 

 of living, or at least by helping to discourage 

 its going still higher, they will benefit them- 

 selves in more ways than one. 



The Ceylon papers, some time back, in 

 speaking of the scarcity of meat, reported that 

 at Matale prices showed a rise of 120 per cent, 

 on November 12, 1912, for on that day there 

 was only one ox available to supply eighty 

 planters and their families on the estates, as 

 well as the general public in the town. We 

 feel that, in face of such news, one and all of 

 our readers who can do so, will at once begin 

 to seriously consider the rearing of cattle and 

 other stock for supplying their meat to those 

 requiring it, in the same enthusiastic and 

 practical manner that they have done and are 

 doing with the planting of rubber and coco- 

 nut palms for their produce. 



Meanwhile, with regard to the supply of 

 remounts for the British Army, matters do not 

 mend. Mr. Walter Runciman, M.P., Presi- 

 dent of the Board of Agriculture, speaking at 

 the conclusion of the Van Horse Parade held 

 annually on Easter Monday (1913) in Regent's 

 Park, London, told his hearers that a year ago 

 a Government publication put the deficiency 

 of young horses at 200,000, and then he added : 

 "// is vastly greater to-day" 



Colonel Seely, M.P., Secretary for War, 

 who also spoke, owned that it was a fact that 



