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Empire, but if the object is worth it, the initial step is to adopt the ' view- 

 point ' described by General Smuts. With the view-point and the mental 

 field surrounding it come the creative ideas which in the end reahse the 

 dream. What I plead for, then, is the ' view-point.' Even in the prosaic 

 occupation of agriculture, of the earth earthy, I suggest that the Imperial 

 view-point is stimulating and creative. 



The conception of an organised agriculture based upon science should, 

 I think, be part of the mental equipment of every statesman and adminis- 

 trator. The same vision should inspire every research worker if, in the 

 words of the late Lord Morley, he is to weave the strands of knowledge 

 into the web of social progress. 



If the vision is keen enough, the conception wide enough, the energy 

 enduring, and the courage unfailing, is it not possible that the group of free 

 nations which constitute the British Empire may demonstrate the means 

 and lead the way to that wider world government to which every generous 

 and contemplative mind would look ? 



Table I. 

 Land returned as arable in the following countries. 



Table II. 

 Live Stock of the Empire. 



Sources of Information. 



' International Yearbook of Agricultural Statistics, 1927-28.' 



' Statistical Abstract for the British Overseas Dominions and Protectorates (Cmd. 



3198), 1928.' 



' Agricultural Statistics of the Ministry of Agricultuj-e and Fisheries and of the 



Board of Agriculture for Scotland.' 



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