Note 31 — PART III. MISCELLANEOUS MATTER CONNECTED WITH NAVAL TIMBER.
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Our industrious operatives, rendered trebly more productive by recent machinery improvements, fabricate three times more commodity than our landed and other population can with their present habits consume. Few other nations can give else but food in exchange for this overplus; our landholders have enacted laws to exclude food, and our operatives are being starved down to the requisite number for home supply.