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The decline in number of the farming population during these 40 
years, amounting as it does to about 10000 persons, has been ac- 
companied by a corresponding rise in the number of those following 
the other occupations here mentioned. Farming, which 40 years ago 
maintained about three-fourths of the nation, does not at present sup- 
port even one-half of it, while the fisheries now furnish employment 
to about one-fifth of the nation. Industry and commerce which 40 
years ago were of very little importance, have now attained to con- 
siderable prominence.