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AGRICULTURE'S ONLY HOPE Sait,—In corn exchange, cattle market, merchants' office

or elsewhere, where farmers and their allied traders forgather and following the usual discussion on the iniquity of E.P.T., the merits of Bersee Wheat or Abed Barley, the value of re-seeding or the model working of the Potato Board, &c., the conversation will surely reach the burning ques- tion of what will happen after the war, the stock answer being that all will be well for four, five or six years at least (according to the speaker's fancy) as the whole world will be starving. It is a sobering thought that the only hope of our agriculture is in other peoples' desperate need. It should not be beyond the wit of man to think of