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Show 1)K( LINK Of M HOl'KiN FlItMI.MJ. Inn nitallng of tht national aaioola tlon of Itrltlah and Irlib mlllara rt efliilly htld In tendon, Mr. V. H. Mallet bald a lecture In wlitrb tie puiutad out tht uutlcablt falllug oQ It. agricultural pruiluoti lu Ureat iintaln uurlug tba laat twauly-flvo yaara. lb rough atatlatlcal llguret ht pruvid lhat tinea 1S7H tht fluanolal tltua-tloti tltua-tloti of Iba faimara baa atvaJUy gruwu wuraa. There were In lfrH, two million ra re acri't under outllvalloo thu lu IsTH, but uotwilliBtaudlrg tbla the wheal aire wat re I need from B.aOO.uuu aon to 1,417, (MH cr., and U oonf juBnliy m.w Ivaa than half of wbat It w.ia ifnl--nve years agu, Ou tht other bund, tht Lumber of oatt ft wat In or taut J with .i.SUil.tliM head, llaaui aud ptaa were itJtit'td In tbt iiiud period fifty per cent lu quantity while barley, unte, rya ai d putatuee ehowed uo Innreaiv. All alher prnduott ul tbt autl wait oouatdurably rtduoed. Tbe aiue ooudltlon wat noticeable In all the w eat urn countries of Kur.ipa, wbtrt uut ruoUKb it produord to tu-ply tu-ply the home eauiumptloo, Tbla oji dltlnn, the lecturer akated, baa led lo tbt adoption of protective meia iroa In )Satn, France, (Jermatiy an 1 other oountrlaa and wilt evt -tually lave a aliullar tftaot In K;iglaud. lu tbla cuntry the clllea are baiu filled with pe iple who abtndon the c.untry dla-iltti. dla-iltti. In ljoudun a lout, in out il lair la-ir ct, there are 4'i,nui) jwr iut whu are di'peudlug uu pubilu obunty for their upporl. It it akwerted that ll w-ui J ta uielena lo glva thaae people an oiipoitunliy to go bauk to tba rural dialricta fur the tua-oo tUtt farm labor no lo 'ger ylel ia enough to aup-I aup-I nrt Ihnaa eni-aiied theietu In Hpaiu and ltuly the ooudltUu U wortt llisi In r.ngiaoJ, while In Franca It la but little tetter. Tut lat-tar lat-tar country, h .waver, hat paid t!ie anormoui aaptmet of tot war with (tor in any and would be far ahead of Ki(lanJ b it for Ihla drain on ita rr-anurcvp. rr-anurcvp. The aruuliural crli a la pnr! In Kuropa, but It la fell more In Koglttid than In any of Iha eintl-nrntal eintl-nrntal c tunlrlta. Tht f1iiM prduoti ara lnttrtitlog brcauit tbt oondlllona thty rrpreaent Indlcatn Hi. I with raturnlng :roter1ty lothe Utilie l Ht.te, tht li Uui of lm m gratlon, temp rarity obrckeJ, will tt rtiumtd with rtntwad force. On acoiunl of tht panlo In 1 H!S thoutaodt of people left iht United Btataa for tht old o unlrlet. Tbate ware, however, not farmtre but varluui klnda of other laborers who Wert unablt tt ttourt traploymeut In tht clllat nf tht Kaat. The farm ara here tuflartJ CJiuparatlvtly lata from hard limea tbau tlmae In Kurope, bo came pravloui abu 'da-it harvrtla and high price had eoatdvd them lo met tbeomi ritetioy, Laat yeti'a Iminigra-tlon Iminigra-tlon iliowad a couilderahle Incraane Over I bat of 1691, and tbt Increase la likely to corHh,ue Ihla year. Well, there it lu Ihla country yet room for mllllooa, and not iini ahould prevent pre-vent tht United Htatei fr ru be-coming be-coming Iha Intahauatlblt ttorehuuae of wettern Kurope and securing all the I beueflta o( iut h a position. i , |
