CD Ware Multimedia 1994 November/Cd Ware (Nro. 2) - Epimundo.iso/DOS/ED/PCKEY.ZIP/EXSIZE4.SCR

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:exsize4.scr

if memory 1 ! 11 goto exit
if memory 2 > 0 goto lesson2
goto start_lesson

:repeat_lesson
bkey r
bkey '

:start_lesson
clear 15

cursor 22 19
print 'Press any key to start lesson 13.
wait -
clear 19 19

clear 15
cursor 2 16
print 'I have extracted another good deal of text for lesson 13. You may wonder where
cursor 0 17
print 'I am getting all this from. Anyhow, your speed - in WPM - will be updated. This
cursor 0 18
print 'lesson is divided into 4 parts.

pass 90
if auto ! 0 auto
script - stspeed

script - waitspc
start 2

:again
start 3

clear 15
cursor 9 16
print 'The regular recurrence of breakfast, dinner, and tea is of
cursor 9 20
print 'more vital and real importance to the vast mass of British
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'people than any other mundane matter.
enter
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'The Christmas food question seems to emphasise this point,
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'and yet we cannot supply our own needs!
enter
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'That is to say, we in Great Britain are dependent on
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'foreign countries for the greater part of our supplies.
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'This article will show how long we should hold out if we
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'depended only on the food produced in this country.
enter
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'Over three-fifths of the people of England live in towns,
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'and year by year our town population is steadily
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'increasing, while the rural or country population
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'continues as steadily to decline in number.
enter
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'Up to the close of the last century England was
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'essentially an agricultural country, and produced ample
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'supplies of food for its then relativley sparse
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'population. But our colonial expansion and a
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'correspondingly rapid growth of an immense mercantile
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'marine stimulated both home and foreign trade and our
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'manufacturing industries to such an extent that villages
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'were depleted or expanded into towns, while many a formely
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'well-peopled rural district became almost deserted. The
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'better pay offered in factories, warehouses, and shops
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'attracted vast numbers of country people into the towns,
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'and this townward tendency is daily becoming more and more
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'pronounced.
enter
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'London alone contains nearly a sixth of the total
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'population of England; ten English cities have each of
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'them over 200,000 inhabitants, and together contain
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'considerably more than one-forth of the people in the
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'whole of England and Wales. Ours is a small country as
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'areas go, but it contains altogether no less than 30 towns
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'with upwards of 100,000 people, and more than twice the
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'number with over 50,000 inhabitants.
enter
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'In Scotland, barely a third of the people live in towns.
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'There are only seven towns north of the Tweed with a
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'population of over 50,000; and of these, only one -
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'Glasgow - has 750,000, and another - Edingburgh - 300,000
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'inhabitants. Two only of the towns of Ireland contain over
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scroll 4 15 22
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print '200,000 people - Dublin with 350,000, and Belfast with
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print '275,000. Only one other town  - Cork - touches 100,000.
enter
cursor 9 16
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cursor 9 20
test -

script - sofar
if accuracy 3 < 90 goto again
if key = R goto repeat_lesson
if key = r goto repeat_lesson

memory 2 = 1
goto start_lesson2

:lesson2
if memory 2 > 1 goto lesson3
goto start_lesson2

:repeat_lesson2
bkey r
bkey '

:start_lesson2
clear 15
cursor 26 18
print 'Now for part 2 of lesson 13.

pass 90
if auto ! 0 auto
script - stspeed

script - waitspc
start 2

:again2
start 3

clear 15
cursor 9 16
print 'It is in England and Wales, then, and in a less degree in
cursor 9 20
print 'Scotland and Ireland that the question of food supplies is
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'of so tremendous an importance that practically it dwarfs
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'every other consideration. Matters of high policy and even
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'imperial interests must needs give place to the more
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'imperious necessity of preserving an unchecked inflow of
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'food for our teeming population.
enter
cursor 9 16
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'Generally speaking, townspeople live mainly by the
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'manufacture or distribution of goods. Country people, on
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'the other hand, find a livelihood chiefly by the
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'production of food for the much more numerous
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'town-dwellers. England is certainly the most highly
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'cultivated country in the world. More than two-thirds of
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'her entire area is under crops or in pasture. In Wales,
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'the cultivable area is about three fifths of the whole; in
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'Scotland, about one-fourth; and in Ireland, about
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'two-thirds. In Scotland barely one-half, and in Ireland
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'only one-sixth, of the arable area is actually tilled.
enter
cursor 9 16
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'In England about a third of the cultivable area is under
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'the plough; but while the acreage under barley, oats,
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'potatoes and other root crops is practically the same now
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'as it was thirty years ago - when the population was
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print '7,000,000 less - the wheat area has fallen from 4,000,000
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'to 2,000 000 acres. The entire agricultural produce of
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'Great Britain is thus utterly insufficient to feed so
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'populous a country, and the deficiency must therefore be
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'met by supplies from abroad. Let us see what is the
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'amount, nature, and approximately the "time limit" of the
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'eatables and drinkables required by the 40,000,000 people
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'who live in this country.
enter
cursor 9 16
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'Roughly speaking, home-grown wheat would enable us to live
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'for about two and a half months; that is to say, supposing
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'it were then wholly and continuously available. With
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'unchecked supplies from the United States and Canada, we
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'would have enough bread for five months longer. From our
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'own colonies and India we can only get enough wheat and
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test -

scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'flour to last us for one and a half months.
enter
cursor 9 16
test -

cursor 9 20
test -

script - sofar
if accuracy 3 < 90 goto again2
if key = R goto repeat_lesson2
if key = r goto repeat_lesson2

memory 2 = 2
goto start_lesson3

:lesson3
if memory 2 > 2 goto lesson4
goto start_lesson3

:repeat_lesson3
bkey r
bkey '

:start_lesson3
clear 15
cursor 26 18
print 'Now for part 3 of lesson 13.

pass 90
if auto ! 0 auto
script - stspeed

script - waitspc
start 2

:again3
start 3

clear 15
cursor 9 16
print 'Bread comes first and foremost, mainly in the form of
cursor 9 20
print 'wheaten bread, and usually made into 4lb and 2lb loaves.
cursor 9 16
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'Taking the 4lb loaf as our standard of comparison, we find
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'that the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the British Isles
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'require in a year about 3,875,000,000 of such loaves, an
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'annual average of 96 loaves, or 1lb per day. British
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'agriculturists only grow enough wheat to make 800,000,000
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'loaves, leaving us dependent on our colonies and foreign
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'countries for no less than 3,075,000,000 loaves!
enter
cursor 9 16
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'The vast wheatfields of the United States supply us with
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'flour to make 1,500,000,000 loaves, but this immense
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'quantity and millions more could be easily supplied by
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'Canada, had she only the men and the means to put even a
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'tithe of her rich wheat soil under cultivation. At present
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'she can only give us a surplus of 150,000,000 loaves.
enter
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'Russia yields 480,000,000; India 266,000,000; Argentina,
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scroll 4 15 22
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print '120,000,000; and Australia, 6,000,000 (in Queensland alone
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'there are 50,000,000 acres suitable for wheat). From a
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'bread point of view, while war with Russia would affect us
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'to a considerable extent, hostilities with the United
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'States would be a calamity indeed, inasmuch as it would be
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'an utter impossiblilty for the rest of the world to make
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'up at short notice the terrible deficiency.
enter
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'British people do not live on bread alone - dry bread is
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'in this country a synonym for dire poverty. Butter, or
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'nowadays margarine, is indissolubly associated with bread,
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'and bread-and-butter is about the most common article of
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'food among all classes. That there is ample room and verge
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'enough for British dairy farmers to expand their means and
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'improve their methods of butter production is evidenced by
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'the fact that in twelve months we buy no less than
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scroll 4 15 22
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print '317,000,000 lbs of butter from foreign countries - one
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'half from the scientifically trained dairymen of Denmark,
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'and 42,000,000 lbs from our colonies, in addition to
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scroll 4 15 22
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print '105,000,000 lbs of margarine, nine-tenths of which comes
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'from Holland.
enter
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'Our home produce of butter is only 213,000,000 lbs and so
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'it comes to pass that, from the bread-and-butter eaten in
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'this country, foreign and colonial farmers derive an
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'annual income of over 60,000,000 pounds sterling. Half
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'that amount, at least, should find its resting-place in
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'the attenuated purses of our own corn and dairy farmers.
enter
cursor 9 16
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cursor 9 20
test -

script - sofar
if accuracy 3 < 90 goto again3
if key = R goto repeat_lesson3
if key = r goto repeat_lesson3

memory 2 = 3
goto start_lesson4

:lesson4
if memory 2 > 3 goto exit
goto start_lesson4

:repeat_lesson4
bkey r
bkey '

:start_lesson4
clear 15
cursor 22 18
print 'And now for the rest of the article.

pass 90
if auto ! 0 auto
script - stspeed

script - waitspc
start 2

:again4
start 3

clear 15
cursor 9 16
print 'Cheese, and something else, are also closely associated
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print 'with bread, particularly in the bucolic Englishman's mind.
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'We pay foreigners about 17,000,000 pounds sterling a year
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'for butter, and our colonies only an eighth of that
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'amount; but in cheese for England's use, the canny
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'Canadian - aided, it must be admitted, by one of the most
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scroll 4 15 22
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print '"helpful" governments in the world - has out stripped the
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'foreigner altogether. From all foreign countries we get
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'about 112,000,000 lbs, as against 176,000,000 lbs from
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'Canada. Our home produce of 260,000,000 lbs gives a cheese
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'supply for five months. Canada alone could keep all
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'Britain in cheese, at the present rate of consumption, for
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'about four months.
enter
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'At the mere mention of eggs, the trueborn Briton sniffs
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'suspiciously, for no inventor - not even a German chemist
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scroll 4 15 22
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print '- has found any effective means of extending the very
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'brief time-limit of an egg. We pay foreigners between
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scroll 4 15 22
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print '4,000,000 and 5,000,000 pounds a year for eggs; but it is
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'somewhat comforting to know that although we "consume"
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scroll 4 15 22
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print '3,600,000,000 eggs a year, we eat only a moiety (sic) of
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'them, and most of these are laid in England. The huge
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'supplies of foreign eggs are mainly used in various
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'manufactures, and our egg merchants and their agents rake
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'the Continent from France to Russia, and cannot get enough
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'to meet the ever-increasing demand. As a marketable
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'commodity, eggs are rising in value, foreign eggs being
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'about 7.5d per dozen, and Canadian eggs 8.25d per dozen.
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'Millions more eggs would be used if they could be got.
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'Incubators and skilled poultry hands should be found on
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'every farm.
enter
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'For dead meat (principally frozen beef and mutton, the
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'latter chiefly from Australia and New Zealand) required to
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'supplement our home production, we pay each year no less
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'than 30,000,000 pounds sterling, while animals for food -
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'cattle and sheep, chiefly from the United States, Canada,
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'and Argentina - cost us 10,000,000 pounds a year. Cut off
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'our colonial and foreign meat supplies, and we should be
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'meatless for over five months out of twelve.
enter
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'Our supply of potatoes would not be appreciably diminished
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'by a complete blockade of our coasts - an utter
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'impossibility in any event. Only about a tenth part of the
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scroll 4 15 22
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print '4,500,000 tons we annually consume is imported, and this
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'comparatively small quantity consists chiefly in the early
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'varieties grown in the Channel Islands, the Canaries, and
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'France. Spain does a relatively large trade with us, and
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'among other eatables obliges us with 2,000,000 bushels of
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'onions every year. We get about the same quantity from
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'Holland, and about half as much from Egypt.
enter
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'We may perhaps gain a clearer idea of the actual
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'time-limit of our food if, we note the annual quantities
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'of the chief articles of food consumed by each individual,
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'and how they are supplied. By utilising her idle capital,
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'idle lands, and idle hands, the dangerous dependence of
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'England on foreign food supplies would be considerably
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'lessened.
enter
cursor 9 16
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cursor 9 20
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script - sofar
if accuracy 3 < 90 goto again4
if key = R goto repeat_lesson4
if key = r goto repeat_lesson4

memory 2 = 0

memory 1 = 12

clear
cursor 51 7
print '13
script save

if key ! C if key ! c goto exit
clear
keyboard

:exit