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Of the grant of £41,050, no less than 

 £26,000 is to be paid in premiums to the 

 owners of stallions and brood mares. It shows 

 that the rich owners are not adverse to the 

 spoon-fed policy when the feeding is applied 

 to their own mouths. Let them therefore 

 loyally work to obtain a good cow and a 

 good pig for every small holder. 



In allocating further grants from the 

 Development Fund I would stress the need 

 of national co-operation in the creation of 

 rural depots for the storing of expensive 

 agricultural machinery. Such depots might 

 be built at the newly-formed farm Institutes, 

 or kept in the village in the same way as fire- 

 engines or any other implement of public 

 utility. I would particularly urge the buying 

 and storing of expensive machinery. To de- 

 velop the agricultural resources of our country 

 we must encourage tillage ; we must bring into 

 active cultivation some of the twelve millions 

 of acres of grass-land which are not "laid down" 

 but, as the farmers would say, " fallen down " 

 to grass. By increasing the number of small 

 farmers in this country we are not likely to 

 increase corn-growing, for the obvious reason 

 that the small man without expensivemachinery 



