THE AGRICULTURE ACT 95 



are daily being bred to be killed. Those 

 who follow the hounds are covering nearly 

 the entire map of England with a network of 

 hunting areas, leaving few gaps between them. 

 At the sound of the hunter's horn, at any 

 moment, forty horsemen may come plunging 

 across your fields, churning up the sodden 

 pastures, crushing the tender-leaved clover 

 under their ruthless hoofs, charging into the 

 upspringing winter oats, and trampling into 

 rain-holes the seedling wheat. And the Hunt 

 pays the damage, say you ? What if it does : 

 the nation suffers in loss of production. 



In spite of all the evidence brought forward 

 by farmers at the Royal Commission on Agri- 

 culture, not a single provision is made in the 

 interest of good cultivation to abolish, or even 

 to reform, the Game Laws. 



To promote food production, the Agriculture 

 Act, 1920, is the most fatuous Act ever re- 

 corded in our statute books. 



