..THE.. 



AGRICULTURAL CHANGES 



Required by These Tiaes, and 



How TO Carry Thea Out. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



IT will, I think, be satisfactory^ to the reader to be 

 told at the outset that I am an agriculturist by 

 profession, having started as such in 1.856 in India 

 as a practical planter — i.e., a planter managing and 

 working his own land. For the last thirty years I have 

 farmed land on my property in Roxburghshire, and still 

 have in my occupation a farm of about 1250 acres. 

 The opportunities I had for being acquainted with the 

 world-wide causes which were sure to bring about a 

 serious state of agricultural conditions in these islands 

 showed me that a thorough reorganization of our 

 farming system was necessary in order to bring 

 it into line with the altered conditions caused by 

 foreign competition, and the rapidly-increasing transport 

 facilities which were sure to bring the produce of the 

 world more and more cheaply to our doors. To myself, 



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