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education and position must be defective, and thej must sorely 
need the reforming influence of cows and pigs and good big 
gardens. 
I have now set before the reader various examples of cow- 
keeping, and several suggestions for increasing the milk supply 
in villages. I have quoted the opinions of a large number of 
correspondents, and I think the reader will conclude from the 
evidence laid before him — (1) that the milk-supply to labourers 
and their children is at present exceedingl>- deficient ; (2) that 
the labourer has in many cases become indifferent to the use of 
milk, even for his children ; (3) that efforts should be used to 
revive the use of milk ; (4) that cow-keeping by labourers should 
be encouraged in suitable districts, and that cow-keeping is a 
system which may be taught, and which prospers best when 
several cow-keepers live near one another, as, for example, on 
the estates of Lord Tollemache or the Earl of Powis. 
XX. — Notes on a Report by Victor Drummond, Esquire, on the 
Foreign Commerce of the United States for the fiscal year ended 
June 30, 1878. Washington, January 18, 1879. By J. D. 
Dent, of Ribston Hall, Weatherby. 
From this Report, which has been recently presented to Parlia- 
ment, it is clear that the time of despondency in the United 
States is passing away, and that a revival of prosperity has 
commenced. 
Up to the end of 1877 and during the earlier portion of 
1878 severe distress prevailed in the United States, while 
depression and failure in most branches of business threw many 
thousands out of employment. The first symptom of returning 
prosperity was that many persons who were thrown out of 
profitable employment in the Eastern States turned their atten- 
tion to Westward emigration, and to the cultivation of the 
soil. Mr. Drummond thus writes of the years 1877 and 1878 : — 
" The soil, its cultivation, and its products have been yielding 
to the fullest extent their fruits during the last two years, 
producing a very large surplus. Agricultural labourers have 
everywhere found full employment. The transportation of 
their crops, and of the goods returned in place of them, 
has given increased employment to the vessels upon all the 
lakes, rivers, and canals, the railways, and to all the labourers 
in the business of transport." And he further states, as an 
indication of the " approach of better times, the prosperity 
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