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not to the interest either of agriculture or the State to 

 try and hold men to such ill-remunerated toil. But 

 where small holding methods and special industries can 

 be devised that will give the occupier both a living 

 wage and an opening for advancement, there a certain 

 proportion of crofts to large farms will fulfil a most 

 necessary function that of giving the agricultural 

 labourer his chance of rising in life. 



