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to a combination of more temporary circumstances 

 than to any settled policy on the part of the owners. 

 Not only were the relations of the State to agriculture 

 in debate at that time, but the farming community 

 was just becoming conscious of a return of prosperity 

 that promised to last for some time, and, encouraged 

 thereby, was beginning to take more interest in the 

 applications of science and education to its industry. 

 For these various reasons I am encouraged to hope 

 that this record of the impressions derived from British 

 farming and farmers during the critical years 191012 

 may be of sufficient interest to justify a separate 

 existence in book form. 



A. D. HALL. 



EWHURST, MERTON, S.W. 

 August 1913. 



