GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 



FURTHER PROVISIONvS 

 OF THE CORN PRODUCTION ACT 1917. 



OFFICIAL SOURCE : 



Journal of the DErAUTxiENT of Ackiculturk axd Tfchnicai. Instruction ior Ireland, 

 Vol. XVII, No. i, Uiiblin, April I'ny. 



In our issue for last October we explained the Corn Production Act 

 191 7 as it affects the wages of agricultural labourers and restricts the raising 

 of agricultural rents in England and Wales. We purpose now to state 

 what are the further provisions of this law. 



§ I. Minimum Price of wheat and Oats. 



A farmer who is compelled to pay a minimum wage to the labourers 

 lie employ's may find that he is in consequence tilling his land at a loss if 

 the sum of the wages and the rent he pays be disproportionate to the price* 

 at which he sells his crops. In such case he has a legitimate grievance ; and 

 therefore the Act not only, as we explained in our previous article, protects 

 him against an unfair increase of his rent, but also guarantees to him a mi- 

 nimum price for his wheat and oats. 



The guarantee is afforded by the first clause of Part I of the Act which 

 states that " if the average price for the wheat or oats of any year for which 

 a minimum price is fixed under this Act... is less than the minimum price 

 as fixed by this Act, the occupier of any land on which wheat or oats have 

 been produced for that ^'■ear shall be entitled to be paid by the Board of 

 Agriculture and Fisheries in respect of each quarter of wheat or oats which 

 he proves to the satisfaction of the board to have been so produced and to 

 have been sold, a sum equal to the difference between the average price 

 and the minimum price per quarter ". 



The minimum prices are fixed as follows : 



Crop for Year ' Wheat, price per quarter j Oats, price per quarter 



1917 60s. 



I918 



55S- 

 1919 \ 



1920 1 



I92I ■ > 45s. 



1922 ] 



I 



38s. 6d. 

 32s. 



24 s. 



