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Rh portion of his profits; and the extent to which this branch of industry is cultivated is proved by the fact that England annually purchases from abroad eggs to the value, in 1904, of nearly 7,000,000l.

The question of large and small farming is often incorrectly confused with the consideration of small landed properties. This subject will be discussed in some of the succeeding chapters of this work.