Show the irishman and ilia potato why Is the potato so much grown and consumed in ireland it is because potato growing and potato eating form tile simplest process by which the irish tenant can keep body and soul together iio he turns up ills his land plants it waits waita four or five months and then digs the crop the product of these operations is his sustenance te nance it has not like cattle or wheat or any of 0 the higher products of farming to he be turned into money before it can be available for his own use the complex transactions by which producers anil and consumers in a civilized society provide for the wants of 0 others and secure the satisfaction of their own do not enter into the economies of the alie irish peasant lie ile sticks his potato into the ground and in duo due time he gathers the harvest feeling hungry he goes to ills his store deals himself out enough potatoes forn for a meal claps mbeni into it ii pot eats them and Is content the substitution of oats for the potato would place him one degree higher in tile the scale of agricultural progress by processes which need not be described we wa should then get the irish tenant past the stage at which a man mail lives from land hand to mouth on the free yield of 0 nature into the stage stag e at which agriculture becomes an all industry pro providing him by exchange or sale not only with wit 1 mere sustenance but with comforts of which lie has hitherto had no experience peri ence industrial Ire ireland huld |