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IV:
1. Well, now; What practical conclusion can we draw from from the whole, additional to our mental and cordial concurrence in the reasoning and the keen plausibilities?
2. This, as a rough summary:
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3. First and foremost, remove your legal obstructions. But don't even dream of a balance by interposing, with protectionism or any other ism, obstacles to other people. Wholly put away encumbering burdens. --This thesis is not agriculture simply, or most assuredly I should not have chosen to write on it. But some suggestions are incidentally and relatively advanced.
4. Learn at any rate to grow tobacco, after the experimented example of Virginia, as here quoted; --it will pay best. Also wine and beet sugar. Peaches to sell at Maori price, one farthing each, capital pay. An odd fifty acres of peaches would be first-rate, Remember, this is not England: get out of the rut of English agricultural notions.
5. And as you can and do grow well beef, mutton, and potatoes, choice vegetables, milk, butter, cheese, eggs, &c., &c,, there somehow surely should be prosperity. Try wheat again. And with cheap unencumbered land, agriculture in New Zealand really should and must pay. Remove the obstacles! And ever contend reasonably yet resolutely for unshackled trade and commerce!
