A NEW 

 AGRICULTURAL POLICY 



CHAPTER I 

 THE FAILURE OF PRIVATE ENTERPRISE 



THE difference between conducting an 

 industry under the shelter of a roof — 

 where every worker, every particle of 

 machinery or material can be supervised — and 

 one in which work is very often carried on by 

 isolated manual and horse labour, and which is 

 always subject to the climatic changes of burn- 

 ing suns, of fierce gales and floods, of frost and 

 snow, is, I think, obvious. 



The divergence between the factory and the 

 farm is even more extended. The factory 

 owner has almost absolute control, subject to 

 laws which his competitors have also to obey, 

 over the conditions obtaining inside his factory, 

 and the inefficiency of his competitor next door 

 is a matter for rejoicing rather than for com- 

 plaint. Not so on the farm, where the forces 

 of Nature should induce all agriculturists to 



