PRICES OF FOOD AND PRODUCE 7 



regarded as adequate, though casual labour had become 

 comparatively scarce. 



The Wiltshire farmer seemed to have adapted his 

 system very closely to the range of prices that had 

 been ruling for produce ; the land is much of it poor, 

 and, though higher farming was very possible, the 

 bigger crops might be dearly bought ; however, if the 

 ratio then current between the price of mutton and that 

 of cake had persisted, he would have been forced to 

 change his methods somewhat and maintain fewer 

 sheep upon entirely home-grown produce. 



