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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.