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country would be regarded as a low living 

 wage. 



Another point to be considered is that 

 certain kinds of produce are best adapted 

 for small holdings. It is possible that in 

 time, in this country also, land may be used 

 for special purposes on a small scale. 

 Attention has recently been attracted to the 

 experiment in fruit culture at Blairgowrie 

 in Perthshire.^ An estate of 450 acres was 

 made into small holdings for fruit culture, 

 and all the land was taken up, and good 

 profits obtained with higher rent. The 

 district, however, seems to be specially 

 adapted to raspberries. 



It will be remembered that by the analysis 

 of the occupations of persons engaged 

 in agriculture in the extended sense of 

 the term, there has of late years been an 



■^ See E. A. Pratt's " Transition in Agriculture," chaps, 

 xx.-xxiv., for similar cases in England. 



